[GreenKeys] RTTY Art JAVA Viewer Facelift

John Foust jfoust at threedee.com
Sun Jan 23 12:11:23 EST 2005


At 11:55 PM 1/22/2005, Tom Jennings wrote:
>It's 5X (or 8X) larger than a simple character transfer but
>eliminates all ambiguity, and really, how many characters is even
>a 6" roll of paper tape anyways?

32K, tops, meaning they'll always fit inside the minimum 
filesystem blocksize that would be taken up...  and of course,
those bulky X..X. files will compress well.  Uh oh.  We'd need
agreement on which chars are holes and which are spaces.
X and O, 1 and 0, 0 and 1, X and 0, x and ., etc.  :-)

- John



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