From: "Mike Petrie" <mike AT petrie DOT u-net DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Text file format .ASC ?
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:27:44 -0000
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Hi,

Shouldn't that go up to 127 before changing anything? - that's where ASCII
ends anyway.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: root AT swan DOT prod DOT itd DOT earthlink DOT net
>
> sounds like uuencode - uudecode
>
> "da Silva, Joe" wrote:
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to decypher a text file, with filename
> > extension ".ASC", which seems to :
> >
> > 1. Use the ASCII character set for characters up to *about*
> >    96 ($60). That is, includes numerals, punctuation, space,
> >    CR/LF pairs, but not the lower case characters, etc.
> >
> > 2. Use some other encoding for characters above *about*
> >    96 ($60). For instance, character 109 ($6D) is either the
> >    the Roman letter 'u' or the Greek letter "mu", whereas in
> >    ASCII, this should be the Roman letter 'm' ...
> >
> > The above clues were obtained from the following fragment :
> > 2C 20 6D 50 43 34 39 34 43 2C 20         , mPC494C,
> >
> > I'm sure the file must be in a non-Roman language, but it
> > does not seem to be a Unicode format, nor does it seem
> > to be any of the (many) strange encoding schemes I have
> > found information on via the web (there seem to be many,
> > many more of these, than I had previously suspected ...).
> >
> > TIA,
> > Joe.
>
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>