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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 07:50:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -ac] Panicking in morse code
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On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> Jens Schmidt writes:
> 
> > I am not a "morse" guy myself, but appreciate this idea.
> 
> Yeah, same here. I have to wonder if morse is the
> best encoding, since many people don't know it.
> The vast majority of us would need a microphone and
> translator program anyway, so a computer-friendly
> encoding makes more sense. Modems don't do morse.

What other widely known encoding for blinking lights did you have in mind.
Clearly there are more people who know morse than any other encoding you
could make up, and even those who don't know it would know what it is.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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