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1997-08-11 - Re: Comments on PGP5.0 OCR (was Re: fyi, pgp source now available , internationally)

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From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
To: mark@unicorn.com
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Message ID: <199708111432.PAA00907@server.test.net>
Reply To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970811105552.3203A-100000@cowboy.dev.madge.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-08-11 15:19:00 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 23:19:00 +0800

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From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 23:19:00 +0800
To: mark@unicorn.com
Subject: Re: Comments on PGP5.0 OCR (was Re: fyi, pgp source now available , internationally)
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Mark Grant <mark@unicorn.com> writes:
> 
> I just wanted to make a few comments on the proofreading, in case anyone
> feels like releasing software in a similar manner in future:
> 
> [...] the OCR-ed pages at HIP included a per-line
> checksum. This was good... but... it also checksummed the whitespace. 
> This wasn't a problem in theory, because tabs were indicated by a special
> character. However, most lines had both tabs *and* spaces and there was no
> way to see where the spaces were because they were overrriden by the tab
> (e.g. "mov<sp><tab>ax,23<sp><sp><tab><sp><tab>; Stuff"). 

How about a book full of 2D barcodes?  

As a plus perhaps the book would be more compact, as you could gzip it
first -- the full source tree looks to be over a foot of doublesided
paper!

Adam
-- 
Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/

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