Message-ID: <01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A4021FC2@emwatent02.meters.com.au> From: "da Silva, Joe" To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" Subject: RE: Text file format .ASC ? (#2) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:40:29 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com That's the problem here - all those other text formats I've found seem to retain the first 128 characters and do strange things with the upper 128 codes. This one doesn't - it seems to use just the upper case letters and other characters below about 96 ($60), which to me suggests some non-Roman language, in which the Roman letters are of secondary importance ... Joe. PS. WordStar ... Now there's on old friend ! > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Petrie [SMTP:mike AT petrie DOT u-net DOT com] > Sent: Wednesday, 7 March 2001 5:28 > To: opendos AT delorie DOT com > Subject: RE: Text file format .ASC ? > > Hi, > > Shouldn't that go up to 127 before changing anything? - that's where ASCII > ends anyway. > > ---- > Regards > Mike Petrie > > Email: mike AT petrie DOT u-net DOT com > WordStar Add-In for Word & WordStar Resource Site home page: > http://www.wordstar.org > http://www.petrie.u-net.com (no frames) > > > > -----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. > > > > -- > > Tom Webb > > Come visit at http://wordwonder.com > > > >