On 25 Sep 2000, 12:07, Greg Froese wrote:
> I've searched the web fruitlessly, so now I come to you, the Pop gurus.
> I'm writing a mail client, and I need to know how big an Octet is.
>
> when you log into a pop3 server, it responds with something like
>
> +OK 3 200
>
> meaning you have 3 messages that total 200 octets in size.
>
> so for me to have an accurate display of progress in downloading the
> mail. so if anyone knows, how big is an octet in KB or anything else.
An octet is 8 bits. It is equivalent to a byte, as long as the byte is
also 8 bits. Bytes range from 4 - 10 bits, but octets are always 8
bits.
Alan
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