Re: Morse Code for DOS

On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 19:36:21 -0000 (UTC)
"Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> wrote:

Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
 

On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 09:40:59 +0100
"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
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Aw, no-one interested?

 
I looked at it in debug, and while I think it's neat, I don't really
understand asm good enough to really get it. (Also, I don't really use Morse
code in my day-to-day life.) And since I had nothing constructive to say, I
kept quiet.

Well, it's not that convoluted:

high level synopsis:

read file from StdIn
if no input exit
if not parm of [-]d goto encode section
decode section:
loop over input
[some jiggling to end word with string of blanks]
accumulate bits (from dot or dash) to byte
find bitpattern in list
put ascii offset
[put space if seen]
end loop

AtEnd:
write result to StdOut
exit

encode section:
loop over input
[to ucase]
xlat to byte encoded morse from list
do each bit
  write dot or dash
enddo
end loop
goto AtEnd

 
Having said that, I'm impressed by the file size. If I were to write my own
version, it would probably end up several kb at the very least.
 

I too was impressed (buff's nails!) - but even so, though I'd started
with a naive large table, that was still less than a k!

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