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From: trumbull@unx.sas.com (Ed Trumbull)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: How many different ASCII textfile formats are there?
Message-ID: <1991May29.173405.2181@unx.sas.com>
Date: 29 May 91 17:34:05 GMT
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Brad Templeton asks for obscure ASCII text formats.  Here's Prime's:

   1.  Prime ASCII is "signed" -- extended ASCII characters go in bytes 0 to 
127, and "normal" ASCII characters go in bytes 128 to 255.
   2.  Text lines are terminated by a newline.  (The newline is ignored as 
terminal input...)
   3.  All occurrences of more than two spaces are compressed by replacing them
with a horizontal tab (DC1) and a byte count.

   
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Ed Trumbull     <trumbull@sdcprm.pri.sas.com>   
SAS Institute, Inc. Cary, NC USA