Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!cse!texas!harrison
From: harrison@csl.dl.nec.com (Mark Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: How many different ASCII textfile formats are there?
Message-ID: <1991May29.174634.23343@csl.dl.nec.com>
Date: 29 May 91 17:46:34 GMT
References: <1991May27.162515.665@looking.on.ca>
Organization: NEC America, C & C Software Development Lab
Lines: 23

In article <1991May27.162515.665@looking.on.ca>
brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:

>I'm making a program that maps textfiles, and I would like to hear of
>any obscure ASCII textfile formats that might exist out there.

The DEC-20 was a 36-bit machine that encoded text files something
like this:  If the high bit was set, the other bits were the line
number.  Otherwise there were 5 seven-bit characters stuffed in
the word.

There was also a representation where there were 6 six-bit characters
in one word.  This was used in the linker, etc, but it could have
been used for text files.  I think that character set was called
SIXBIT.

The above is rather vague in my mind, and probably not entirely
accurate. :-)
-- 
Mark Harrison           | Note: harrison@ssd.dl.nec.com and
harrison@csl.dl.nec.com | necssd!harrison are not operating at
(214)518-5050           | present.  Please forward mail through the
                        | above address.  Sorry for the inconvenience.