Re: [aclug-L] Whats an octet?
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Generally speaking you can think of an octet as a byte. An octet is an
8 bit value. Now days, in most cases, a byte is considered to be 8
bits as well. But on some systems that is not necessarily the
case. Therefore, to unambiguously mean 8 bits, the term octet is
preferred.
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 06:34:57PM -0600, Brian J. Chapman wrote:
> hey :)
>
> ok, so you telnet to port 110 and log into a POP3 server by hand...doing a
> LIST command prints an enumerated list of messages depicting their sizes
> in 'octets'. so my question is: whats an octet (in relation to a byte)? is
> it the same thing?
>
> (i do this somtimes to delete big files that were bounced back)
>
> just curious. thanks!
>
>
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