From: "Hall, Keven" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 8 October 2010 5:46 AM
One of my pet peeves is when IPCS (for example) does this: 0000 40404040 40404040 40404040 00000000 | | 0010 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 |................| 0020 Next X'0010' bytes same as above 0030 00000000 40404040 40404040 40404040 |.... | Why not just display the [expletive elided] data?
Why not?, I wonder. Obviously not much thought went into the design of that program. And a simple test would have been sufficient to avoid that problem. In fact, with some printers, printing would actually be slowed down by having to print the alpha characters of the message (compared to printing only numeric).
