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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: "jdow" <jdow@earthlink.net>, "Bill Davidsen" <davidsen@tmr.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -ac] Panicking in morse code
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 07:13:03 +0200
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On Friday 26 July 2002 06:52, jdow wrote:
> From: "Daniel Phillips" <phillips@arcor.de>
> > On Thursday 25 July 2002 14:51, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > > ??? If the length is 1..5 I suspect you could use the top two bits and fit
> > > the whole thing in a byte. But since bytes work well, use the top three
> > > bits for length without the one bit offset. Still a big win over strings,
> > > although a LOT harder to get right by eye.
> >
> > Please read back through the thread and see how 255 different 7 bit codes
> > complete with lengths can be packed into 8 bits.
> 
> It appears someone is under the misapprehension that Morse characters are
> all 5 elements or less. "SK" is an example of a six element meta-character,
> one of a set that needs caring for, "...-.-".

Need I point out that we are now perfectly positioned to invent the additional
morse codes needed to represent all the remaining ascii characters?  We could
call the revised code... err... "remorse" ;-)

-- 
Daniel
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