From: james.harris.1@nospicedham.gmail.com   
      
   On 18/07/2017 19:34, Kerr Mudd-John wrote:   
   > "wolfgang kern"  wrote in news:oklfc9$1lr5$1   
   > @gioia.aioe.org:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> James Harris asked:   
   >>   
   >>> How short was the (current) shortest solution?   
   >>   
   >> by adopting Kerr Mudd-John's decoder routine we are down to 209 byte yet.   
   >> __   
   >> wolfgang   
   >>   
   >   
   > Depends on the spec; my shortest using only B64 chars is 246.   
      
   OK. Whether 209 or 246 it's a substantial bit of code to write in   
   printable characters!   
      
   Given that the decoded code has to start on a 16-byte boundary (so that   
   it can start at CS:100) and that there could be CRLFs added to the   
   209/246 do the figures need to have up to 15 bytes of padding added at   
   the end before the text which is to be decoded?   
      
      
      
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   James Harris   
      
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