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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.       __       wolfgang              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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