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Re[1]: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data
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Eric M. Ludlam |
Subject: |
Re[1]: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:38:20 -0500 |
>>> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) seems to think that:
>
>While writing a package that sends and receives datagrams using the
>new make-network-process functionality, I quickly found that I needed
>to be able to encode and decode binary data structures, so I came up
>with the following package (struct.el).
>
>I'd like to hear if something like this already exists, or if others
>find it should be added to emacs (with more complete documentation of
>course). [Also, the struct-pack function doesn't work with nested
>data, but I'll fix that if there is an interest in this package].
>
>++kfs
>
>------------------------- struct.el --------------------
>;;; struct.el --- basic data structure packing and unpacking.
>
>;; Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
[ ... ]
I wrote something for packing X messages via a TCP socket. You could
define the message in a vector and it would pack and unpack the item.
It was X centric, and you could encode sizes for X's dynamic length
fields. The key to what I built was to make defining the 100's of X
messages easy.
http://cedet.sourceforge.net/
http://cedet.sourceforge.net/ftp/X-0.3a.tar.gz
It was over 5 years ago when I wrote it so it worked with some pretty
old versions of Emacs, but I could help someone get it working if
needed.
It was really quite nifty, if somewhat esoteric.
Eric
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