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 -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user