Re: [LAU] Why telnet for communication between applications?

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:17:01PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:

> In the 1980's a lot of protocols were binary, and designed for use over slow serial links. Nowadays, it seems like new protocols are mostly text-based and descended from HTTP or other Internet RFC's.

With as a result that sender apps are wasting their
time by converting internal binary data to <whatever
bloated format>, and receivers by doing the inverse
operation... :-]

Ciao

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