[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

[AEF]

On Nov 12, 5:05 pm, Bob Eager <rd... at spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:42:21 -0500, JF Mezei wrote:
> > MetaEd wrote:
> >> On Nov 12, 10:00 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> >>> =48=50 =53=75=63=6B=73
>
> >> 054754 031566 025723 101703 073314 034775 000050 104700 127400
>
> > You should give us a hint on character encoding here. In Hex/ascii there
> > are too many unprintable characters. In octal, the second characxter is
> > above 256, which would imply 2 byte values and UTF.
>
> First of all, it doesn't look like character encoding to me anyway; I'll
> keave it as an exercise...
>
> But even if it were, you're talking about the FIRST character, since it
> would probably be LSB first. And that isn't 754, it's 354; only 8 bits
> are used, and 754 spans 9. And 354 is less than 256 decimal...
>
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Looks like the default output of Unix's od command, with the first
column missing. In that case, it's octal, sort of. Good luck.

AEF