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by a6l6e6x
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1/16/03 9:20:31 PM
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New Don't know Wylbur from hole in the ground, but...
could they be using IBM's SCB (String Control Byte) Compression?

Here's one [link|http://members.aol.com/CliffA1994/Snasteps.html|link.] Search for compression - it's in Appendix B. There are probably better references than this.
Alex
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Post #75,021
by broomberg
1/16/03 11:23:52 PM
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New Feels like it
Warrants further reading.

Thanks.

Note: His code does not even work on his examples, so I dunno what's up with it.

Might be machine architecture dependant.
Hate bit twiddling on different boxen.
     Wylbur decoding - (broomberg) - (3) - Jan. 16, 2003, 07:15:03 PM EST
         Somebody figured it out - (broomberg) - Jan. 16, 2003, 08:15:55 PM EST
         Don't know Wylbur from hole in the ground, but... - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Jan. 16, 2003, 09:20:31 PM EST
             Feels like it - (broomberg) - Jan. 16, 2003, 11:23:52 PM EST

It looks like someone transcribed a naval weather forecast while woodpeckers hammered their shift keys, then randomly indented it.
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