Quasi-1991 encoding

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Tue May 25 17:50:50 CEST 2004


On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 05:15:26PM -0400, Hasnain Mujtaba wrote:
> Does this "quasi-1991 partial length encoding" refer to the
> "indeterminate length" packet encoding?

It's related, but not the same thing.  Indeterminate length encoding
means "I don't know how long it is".  Partial length encoding means "I
know how long the next little bit is, repeat.".

David



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