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   wolfgang kern to James Harris   
   Re: Look back to "just for the H@ck"   
   18 Jul 17 19:07:10   
   
   From: nowhere@never.at   
      
   James Harris wrote:   
   ...   
   >> That's rather stupid IMHO:   
      
   >> If you have 95 available characters you should get at least 6.5   
   >> bits/char, i.e. with such a large alphabet you need to use something   
   >> more efficient than Base64.   
      
   > What might be useful these days is a decoder for hex digit pairs. Then   
   > the program would be human-readable - at least to people like Wolfgang.   
      
   > And if the code was position-independent it would even be editable!   
      
   I already tried this because my favourite is hex, but it needs the   
   conditional Sub,7 which will cause one more modify point.   
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   wolfgang   
      
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