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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Book examples on uunet (anonymous ftp)
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.031011.26651@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 15 Jan 91 03:10:11 GMT
References: <91Jan12.012609est.22192@me.utoronto.ca> <11026@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <73603269@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
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As quoted from <73603269@bfmny0.BFM.COM> by tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff):
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| In article <11026@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
| >The one I really wish I could throw in (but it wouldn't really be all that
| >useful to most people) is kybble, a bit editor that the Magellan folks are
| >using to patch the bit slips and complements in the telemetry data off of
| >Tape A on the spacecraft.  That's the main reason patch 42 contains new
| >binary and hex pack/unpack options.
| 
| I am going to smile just a little wider as I use Perl today!
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I'm not most people.  If it'll work for spacecraft telemetry, I wonder if I
can get it to patch errors in AX.25 packets?  ;-)

("kybble", huh?  Egads!  ;-)

++Brandon
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