Johnny Billquist wrote: >> 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. > > With one bit lost... (7*5 == 35) > Maybe I'm missing the point here, but if you want to handle anything > except 7bit text, then I think this format would fail...
The format I've seen called ANSI-ASCII does handle the last bit. It puts it at the top of the last octet. So one 36-bit word AAAAAAABBBBBBBCCCCCCCDDDDDDDEEEEEEEF becomes the five octets 0AAAAAAA 0BBBBBBB CCCCCCC 0DDDDDDD FEEEEEEE. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
