Re: bitXor 8 bytes of data

2009-12-10 Thread DunbarX
This is not just good natured banter. It is a poltergeist that lives in all x-talk programming, going way back to early HC. I absolutely KNOW that I have had scripts fail, even though they are perfectly well constructed, and then just fix themselves while I am fiddling with them. This even

Re: bitXor 8 bytes of data

2009-12-09 Thread Neil Allan
@lists.runrev.com Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12:04 AM Subject: Re: bitXor 8 bytes of data Neil Allan wrote: Does anyone have a way of doing a simple bitwise xor with two 8 byte signed floating point numbers? I believe the revTalk bitXor command can only accept non signed numbers. I have

Re: bitXor 8 bytes of data

2009-12-09 Thread Neil Allan
an alpha before Christmas!! Regards Neil From: Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12:04 AM Subject: Re: bitXor 8 bytes of data Neil Allan wrote: Does anyone have a way of doing a simple bitwise xor

Re: bitXor 8 bytes of data

2009-12-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Neil- Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 11:48:51 AM, you wrote: Thanks anyway, I was starting to panic after promising an alpha before Christmas!! rotfl... I know that feeling... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: bitXor 8 bytes of data

2009-12-09 Thread Alex Tweedly
Neil Allan wrote: After some deep thought today, I achieved my desired goal by xoring each individual byte. I could swear I tried this before, but anyhoo it's working now! Sometimes it's not enough to try something . you need to tell someone else that it still fails, and only then will it

bitXor 8 bytes of data

2009-12-08 Thread Neil Allan
Does anyone have a way of doing a simple bitwise xor with two 8 byte signed floating point numbers? I believe the revTalk bitXor command can only accept non signed numbers. I have tried performing the bitXor byte by byte on the two strings using the byteToNum() function on each byte

Re: bitXor 8 bytes of data

2009-12-08 Thread Alex Tweedly
Neil Allan wrote: Does anyone have a way of doing a simple bitwise xor with two 8 byte signed floating point numbers? I believe the revTalk bitXor command can only accept non signed numbers. I have tried performing the bitXor byte by byte on the two strings using the byteToNum() function on