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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: Decryption of corrupted files...
Message-ID: <529@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 4-May-86 23:29:55 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  4 23:29:55 1986
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In article <13619@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> desj@brahms.UUCP (David desJardins) writes:
>...  There
>seems to be a need for a book on "Error Correcting Codes for Programmers,"
>which would describe how to implement some simple error-correcting codes,
>but I don't know of any such book....

Richard Hamming wrote such a book; it was aimed at practicing
engineers rather than theoreticians.  I forget its title, but
it was something obvious.  Wish I had a copy.