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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by walshemj on Saturday June 23, 2018 @02:28PM (#17382624)
Text has a lot of advantages - I know as I had to debug OSI binary protocols - You had to dump it out to a textual representation.

unless you had spent years and could read the protocol in its binary form

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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by minitech on Saturday June 23, 2018 @08:51PM (#17384346)
That’s

- one advantage, not “a lot”

- very slight, because the tool to convert to and from text gets made

- vastly outweighed by the disadvantages

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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by walshemj on Sunday June 24, 2018 @07:16PM (#17388895)
Ever had to debug an osi stack using a printed out x.409 decode ?
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