Re: [PATCH] Add a birdview-on-the-source-code section to the user manual

> On Wed, 9 May 2007, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>
> > It's kind of important to distinguish between the hex
> > representation and the octet representation, because your code
> > will not work at all if you use the wrong one. And "unsigned char
> > *" or "unsigned char[20]" is always the octets; the hex is always
> > "char *". Primarily mentioning the one that is more intuitive but
> > less frequently used doesn't help with understanding the actual
> > code.
>
> That's a really good idea, to point out that "unsigned char *"
> refers to octets, while "char *" refers to the ASCII representation.
> I will add this, together with a simple example (the initial
> commit).