From: nowhere@never.at   
      
   Thanks a lot Herbert,   
      
   > I had two restrictions for the used characters:   
      
   > 1. It must be possible to generate the binary file by echo statements   
   >   in a batch file. So no <>|%!^ is allowed. Because echo always   
   >   terminates a line by , there is no need to tolerate only   
   >    or  as a line termination.   
      
   > 2. It must be possible to transfer the batch file by email or usenet   
   >   without modification.   
      
   > I had a two line decoding header:   
      
   > hD1X-s0P_kUHP0UxGWX4ax1y1ieimnfeinklddmemkjanmndnadmndnpbbn   
   > hhpbbnpljhoxolnhaigidpllnbkdnhlkfhlflefblffahfUebdfahhfkokh   
      
   I'll check this in more detail this time.   
      
   > The binary following this two lines was encoded as 6 bits per byte   
   > using the characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9, @ and /.   
      
   this sounds like a predecessor of Base64.   
      
   > Here an example which animates annie from the good old assembly days:   
   > (But because in Win64 no 16 bit code can be execute these ascii binaries   
   > are obsolete these days, but annie also works in DOSBox.)   
      
   [...] copied to check on Annie Ascii in motion :)   
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   wolfgang   
      
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