Rich Alderson wrote: > Lars Brinkhoff wrote: >> If there's one thing I'd wish for, it would be for a standard >> encoding of binary 36-bit data into octets. FTP uses high density >> format. Magtapes use core dump format. ITS files and itstar use the >> evacuate format. Then there's the ANSI-ASCII/KERMIT-36 5x7+1 format. >> Let's not bring up disk images or 7-track and paper tapes. > > Personally, I'd vote for coredump format, as it's the common > denominator among Tops-10 and its derivatives (SAIL's WAITS, > Tymshare's TYMCOM-X, the CIS monitor) and TOPS-20, with utilities to > convert into the others if necessary (which it rarely is).
If we're casting votes, I'd put mine on ASCII-ANSI. Because: - PDP-10 7-bit ASCII files are transformed into 8-bit ASCII files. - It's simple. - Words are always encoded into 5 octets. Of course core dump shares the last two properties, but not the first. I think it's great to be able to read text files without running them through an additional conversion step. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
