Re: SV: Ping - error?

Matei Conovici (cmatei@lbi.ro)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 21:52:16 +0300

> yourself) then that's how it's gonna be. Besides, what program would be
> braindead enough to write out triplets like that anyhow? :) Also,
> \0xxx

I've seen firmware (radio modem, bridge/router) that only accepts an
IP address if it's made of 4 triplets, zero-padded, like that ... :-)

So some engineers _do_ like this fixed width format :-))

> Derrik Pates
> dpates@kalifornia.com
> dpates@acm.org

Matei

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