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elisp: Byte Packing

 
 36.20 Packing and Unpacking Byte Arrays
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 This section describes how to pack and unpack arrays of bytes, usually
 for binary network protocols.  These functions convert byte arrays to
 alists, and vice versa.  The byte array can be represented as a unibyte
 string or as a vector of integers, while the alist associates symbols
 either with fixed-size objects or with recursive sub-alists.  To use the
 functions referred to in this section, load the ‘bindat’ library.
 
    Conversion from byte arrays to nested alists is also known as
 “deserializing” or “unpacking”, while going in the opposite direction is
 also known as “serializing” or “packing”.
 

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· Bindat Spec         Describing data layout.
· Bindat Functions    Doing the unpacking and packing.
· Bindat Examples     Samples of what bindat.el can do for you!
 

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