[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

[Bob Eager]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:50:05 -0800, AEF wrote:

> 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.

Well, I think the octal bit was obvious. What it represents is more 
subtle...




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