On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Ruediger zu Dohna wrote:
> Hi!
>
> If you are doing serious network stuff or you import data from other
> applications, you often need to access single bits in a bit stream. I am
> aware of the binaryEn/Decode functions that are often a great help for
> this, but it would still be more xTalkish to access bits like this:
>
> get bit 1 to 3 of myVar
I'm not sure that anyone doing "serious network stuff" needs that kind
of coddling. More likely, you'll be working from C code and so the
support that's already in there is more useful:
get myVar bitAnd 0x7
Regards,
Scott
> Comments welcome!
>
> Regards
> R�diger
>
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