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From: putnam@steinmetz.UUCP (jefu)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: Decryption of corrupted files...
Message-ID: <733@steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-May-86 09:04:34 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 10 09:04:34 1986
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In article <529@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.ARPA writes:
>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.

I have a copy.  It is :
   Coding and Information Theory
   R. W. Hamming
   Prentice-Hall
   1980

I, with only peripheral interest in such things, find this well worth having.  
Good reading as well as good information.  


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