From: ebay@nospicedham.abnuto.de   
      
   Kerr-Mudd,John:   
      
   > My googlefu is awful; I can't get any decent (i.e. short fast) hex2bin   
   > asm source code. Just some learners with naive code such as (top of   
   > head) ------------   
   > cmp al,'0'   
   > jb gnc cmp al,'9'   
   > jb isnum and al,0xDF ; scrap lowercase sub al,'A'   
   > jb gnc add al,0x0A jmp havehex isnum:   
   > sub al,0x30 havehex:   
   > ------------   
      
   What about   
      
   ((byte((ascii and $1f)-16)*133) shr 7) and 15   
      
   also works with mul 266 and shift by 8, of course.   
      
      
   Gruss   
      
   Jan Bruns   
      
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