From: klee@nospicedham.unibwm.de   
      
   On 18.07.2017 10:11, James Harris wrote:   
      
   > As someone who has seen the various attempts at writing a decoder I am   
   > not sure what the goal is.   
      
   In these days it is just for fun. Back in the days of   
   DOS and Win9x it was a perfect way to enhance batch scripts.   
   With ascii-binaries you could embed CPU instructions into   
   a batch file and overcome all the limitations of command.com.   
   You could even write a batch file, which (when renamed from .bat   
   to .com) was also a working executable program.   
      
   It still would be very useful with the current Windows   
   versions, but Win64 can't execute 16 bit com files anymore.   
   Now you have to embed ascii coded 32 bit Windows binaries   
   in a batch program, but such programs are at least 1k   
   in size, which makes this method very unhandy.   
      
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