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Re: text file from Linux to windows.



On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 08:49:07AM -0700, owens@peak.org wrote:
 
> I also remember when one had to put two STOP bits at the end of each ASCII
> character transmitted to allow the print ball time to return to its
> resting position in advance of the next character
> Larry Owens
> >

Yeah, and it only took 5 bits per character (baudot) instead of 7 for ASCII or
now however-many for unicode.  Progress.  I wonder which would take less
room on disk: 1000 emails in baudot or in ascii after gziping?

Doug.


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