From: nowhere@never.at   
      
   Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:   
   ...   
   >>>> ie: (my suggestion)   
   >>>>  the binaries are converted into characters 0x23..0x78 only.   
      
   >>> I've gone with the "standard" set starting at 0x21; your method   
   >>> avoids double quotes but not single (or pipe symbols <>|). To   
   >>> substitute awkward ones, costs me erm - too many bytes!   
      
   >> you see a problem with "<>|" ? aren't these only seen in replies ?   
      
   > Not on usenet so much, but executing in DOS & Linux.   
      
   Would it matter what text you see on screen ?   
      
   This 35 to 32 bits encoding gives us eight options to chose from,   
   the decoder would work equal on either anyway. I havent checked in   
   detail if this is enough to avoid certain characters.   
      
   >> But yes, any origin post should avoid it as long they aren't part of   
   >> code, that's why I suggested Quotemarks (0x22) as always visible   
   >> delimiters.   
      
   >>> I have something that's close to working in 6 lines; it has the usual   
      
   > 4 and a half lines; I'd duplicated the decoder!   
   > But it contains 3 single quotes.   
      
   >>> pre- amble to set registers with a popa, my usual copy to early PSP,   
   >>> and markup and execute; the routine copied is the 5:4 decoder, this   
   >>> then decodes the fileio routine which itself calls the decoder in   
   >>> PSP. It could probably be done much more easily using 32bit   
   >>> registers.   
      
   >> My idea wasn't about an immediate implied conversion, my intention was   
   >> to give us (text only users) a chance to share code snips.   
      
   > Not really a lot of benefit over posting hex. Sorry.   
      
   Yeah, the only advantage over hex is much shorter text (*1.25 vs *2)   
   and also shorter than any 4:3 encoding.   
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   wolfgang   
      
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