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From: msf@sunbow.Central.Sun.COM (Mike Fischbein)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: info sought on GML 'language'  for Bruning/ZETA plotters
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Date: 15 Feb 91 01:46:42 GMT
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In article <1991Feb14.193932.1845@ee.ualberta.ca> kurtk@dino (Kurt Klingbeil) writes:
>
>Practically nothing talks GML (except SAS), which isn't hard to understand
>since from what I've been able to glean from the manual and some plot
>files, GML is even more bizzarrrre than Intel.
>
>e.g.: - numeric values use base 32 signed numbers with digits 0-7A-X
>	  - the alpha/numeric/symbolic characterset contains sequences like:
>	    ' ABCDEFGHI .<(+ &JKLMNOPQR!$*); ' in order from '20' - '2X'

That's not bizzare, that's EBCDIC.  I'll bet (well, actually I know this
for SAS) that your original program was developed back on a punch card
system.  EBCDIC is an 8-bit packing of the 12-bit Hollerith punch code.

		mike

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