>The one thing that his "protocol" doesn't provide is a packet end
>marker. To me, that seems to be the only technical difference (and
>it doesn't matter whether that end marker is an end-of-line or 'End'
>or whatever). Whether that is a serious flaw depends on criteria I
>mostly don't know (among them the format of the numbers, especially V).

To me not having an end of packet marker is dangerous, as it limits the 
ability of the system to re-sync the data stream on an error or missed 
block. 

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