Octets calculation?

[Paul Foley]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:41:38 +1200, using news cis dfn de wrote:

> Tyreal wrote:
>> I was reading over the POP3 RFC  (RFC 1939) and it states that message sizes must be
>> in octets, but that it's different in bytes in that they are nonambigious (ie. bytes vary from platform
>> to platform).

> In my experience, this supposed ambiguity about the meaning
> of the word "byte" is something that only exists in the
> rarified imaginations of standards writers. In the real
> world, nobody ever uses it to mean anything other than
> 8 bits.

Wanna bet?  I do.

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