On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 12:05:55PM +0100, Stephen Turner wrote:
> But why didn't the referees allow it? There's nothing in the rules about it,
> is there? And surely it wasn't just the problems with submitting it, because
> other non-printable characters are as bad. Did they give a reason?
As far as I found out, there are three characters that can't be
submitted. Binary \0 (which trunctates the file then and there), Binary
\r which gets mangled to a \n (My first compressed solution failed on
this), and from the comments somewhere in the post mortem \xff.
I would very much like to see PGAS allow _all_ characters, and the %..
method seems okay to me. I think the combined post-mortem page should
show them all in that form - perhaps with a download link to download a
single solution in binary correct form?
CU,
Sec
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