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From: woolsey@netcom.COM (Jeff Woolsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc
Subject: Re: Summary of responses, reading a CDC tape (very long)
Keywords: cdc, pedantic
Message-ID: <1991May14.002633.21710@netcom.COM>
Date: 14 May 91 00:26:33 GMT
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In article <1991May11.211134.21449@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@clio.sts.uiuc.edu (Mike Berger) writes:
>Did anybody bother to mention that CDC denotes end-of-line with 12 bits
>of 0 at the end of a 60 bit word?  I believe Compass even had a command
>to detect that.

Well, it's actually between 12 and 66 bits of zero right-justified in 
a word or two.  And if you're in the 64-character set, you get to worry
about preserving colons at the ends of lines...  What fun!
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