Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?

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Sujet : Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?
De : rjh (at) *nospam* cpax.org.uk (Richard Heathfield)
Groupes : sci.crypt
Date : 22. Feb 2025, 07:36:18
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Organisation : Fix this later
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On 21/02/2025 22:23, David Entwistle wrote:
The following is based on my partial and limited understanding of the
matter. None of this is very important, nor causing any significant
problems, but maybe should be considered. It could be wrong...
 On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 02:54:21 +0000, Richard Heathfield wrote:
 
Well, a newsreader that can't correctly render ASCII is - um... - shall
we say in urgent need of a bug report?
 Not really. The ASCII specification includes caret notation for control
characters. In has been like that since the early days.
Irrelevant, I'm afraid, David.
A Usenet article is a message from a human to other humans. We can't reasonably expect other people to conspire with us in communicating via control characters. One doesn't embed ASCII 0000001s in Usenet articles.
This is the use-mention distinction. We can talk about ^A till we're blue in the face without ever actually using one. We talk about it by mentioning it, using a ^ and an A like this: ^A
No control characters were used in the construction of that paragraph.
Newsreading software that wrongly interprets ^A as "control-A" will wrongly interpret C=B^A, and is in /desperate/ need of a bug report.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#Table_of_codes>
 The interpretation of the caret and the subsequent character will be
platform and application dependant.
Indeed. For example, the SCOS and SCOS2 applications interpret it as a printable character... which of course it is.

PS I do like SCOS.
Well, I'm glad... but a SCOS that can't shroud source code is only half a SCOS.
--
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
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Date Sujet#  Auteur
9 Feb 25 * @ SCOS Message Format ?34Byrl Raze Buckbriar
9 Feb 25 +- Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?1Onion Courier
10 Feb 25 `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?32Richard Heathfield
10 Feb 25  `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?31Rich
10 Feb 25   `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?30Richard Heathfield
21 Feb 25    `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?29David Entwistle
21 Feb 25     `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?28Richard Heathfield
21 Feb 25      `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?27David Entwistle
22 Feb 25       `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?26Richard Heathfield
22 Feb 25        `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?25David Entwistle
22 Feb 25         `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?24Richard Heathfield
23 Feb 25          `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?23David Entwistle
23 Feb 25           `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?22Richard Heathfield
24 Feb 25            `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?21David Entwistle
24 Feb 25             +* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?18Richard Harnden
24 Feb 25             i+* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?16Richard Heathfield
24 Feb 25             ii+* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?13Richard Harnden
24 Feb 25             iii`* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?12Richard Heathfield
24 Feb 25             iii +* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?3Richard Harnden
24 Feb 25             iii i+- Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?1Richard Heathfield
24 Feb 25             iii i`- Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?1Rich
24 Feb 25             iii `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?8Rich
24 Feb 25             iii  `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?7Richard Heathfield
24 Feb 25             iii   `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?6Rich
25 Feb 25             iii    `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?5Richard Heathfield
25 Feb 25             iii     +- Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?1Richard Harnden
25 Feb 25             iii     `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?3Rich
25 Feb 25             iii      `* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?2Richard Heathfield
25 Feb 25             iii       `- Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?1Rich
24 Feb 25             ii`* Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?2David Entwistle
24 Feb 25             ii `- Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?1Richard Heathfield
24 Feb 25             i`- Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?1David Entwistle
24 Feb 25             +- Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?1Richard Heathfield
24 Feb 25             `- Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?1Jan Panteltje

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