[ANSI-Smalltalk] Smalltalk file streams

[Bruce Badger]

On 17/10/2008, Richard O'Keefe <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
>  The requirement is explicit:
>         #'text'
>         The external data is treated as a sequenced (sic.) of
>   >>>>  8-bit characters
>         encoded using an implementation defined external character set.
>         The sequence value type is <Character> restricted to those
>         specific characters that may be represented in the external
>         character set.

Most RFCs and specs use the term "octet" these days to distinguish the
fixed-sized 8-bit units from "Characters" and "Bytes" both of which
can come in a number of sizes.

I think we should use the term Octet in our new documents when we mean
a sequence of 8 bits.

All the best,
    Bruce
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