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From: rbl@nitrex.UUCP ( Dr. Robin Lake )
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Subject: Re: atype.c & ctype.c -- simple text statistics
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Date: Thu, 30-Oct-86 13:10:50 EST
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Reply-To: rbl@nitrex.UUCP ( Dr. Robin Lake )
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A similar tool solved a difficult technical problem.  By analysis of the
byte-frequency on a tape, we determined it had been mis-copied on a Cyber
(63 byte character set) and not corrupted on a tape drive in a remote
location.

Also, it's been useful in finding characters to use as alias bytes when
transforming data file formats.

Robin Lake
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