[GreenKeys] RTTY Art JAVA Viewer Facelift

[John Foust]

At 08:38 AM 1/17/2005, Bob Camp wrote:
>One thing that would be a *very* good idea would be to come up with a file format for this stuff. The world is more or less an 8 bit environment these days. We also don't seem to worry much about file sizes any more. I doubt that my living room full of tape would fill even a very old hard drive.

Don't sweat the file format, either.  I like the notion of just putting
the low five bits in a byte.  That means it's not ASCII, but that's OK.
Make a simple ASCII header that ends in a CR/LF, like "#RTTY tape format v1.0".
Document the format, including a suggested mapping to ASCII, and you're done.

If you wanted to get fancy, allow any number of comment header
lines at the start, and don't start the actual data until after
special comment line like "#START\r\n".  This would allow us
to put comments inside the file, describing the image and
where it came from.

- John