From: ams@nospicedham.ludd.luth.se   
      
   wolfgang kern  wrote:   
   > Martin Str|mberg wrote in part:   
   > > Certainly _my_ rules would allow any sort of encoding of the payload,   
   > > but limited obviously by which chars were allowed. (For example I   
   > > don't like the "backtick" char (ASCII 0x60) and the backslash would   
   > > probably wreck havoc or be corrupted by transfer so I made sure that   
   > > those weren't used. Going so far as to move around blocks of code so   
   > > they disappeared, as they usually was being generated by offsets in   
   > > the second stage decoder.)   
      
   > Where would backslash or reverse apostroph be corrupted ?   
      
   > I enter both here: "`\"   
      
   Anywhere on the internet or even when you or I pasted/wrote the   
   text into/out of the BBS software/site. (With the chars I see right   
   now I might even think the ` is a space or dust on the screen. That's   
   one reason for not liking 0x60.)   
      
   And just because it works _now_ doesn't mean it worked then.   
      
   > and I assume that these two are tranfered unmodified. Perhaps some   
      
   That assumption was not a given in the early days and one of the   
   reason for that this exercise would have been useful in those days.   
      
      
   --   
   MartinS   
      
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