Re: text file from Linux to windows.

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 08:49:07AM -0700, owens@xxxxxxxx wrote:

I also remember when one had to put two STOP bits at the end of each ASCII
character transmitted to allow the print ball time to return to its
resting position in advance of the next character
Larry Owens


Yeah, and it only took 5 bits per character (baudot) instead of 7 for ASCII or
now however-many for unicode. Progress. I wonder which would take less
room on disk: 1000 emails in baudot or in ascii after gziping?

Doug.


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