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Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates

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Date 2020-03-24 16:06 -0700
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Subject Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates
From Nathanael <cjeculver@gmail.com>

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On Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at 2:25:33 AM UTC+8, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> Apparently (some?) text files are encoded as 7-bit
> ASCII with five characters per 36-bit word.
> 
> Binary files are stored four octets per 36-bit word.

Well, that kinda complicates the whole thing :)

> 2980 x 5 = 14900.

Which is still not 14331, so I assume what’s being reported is some sort of block/record allocation rather than actual byte count. Ah, well.

What’s the underlying OS?

> But there's red tape to cut through, so it will take some time.

I’ll try to wait patiently :)

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*HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates Nathanael <cjeculver@gmail.com> - 2020-03-22 21:30 -0700
  Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates Nathanael <cjeculver@gmail.com> - 2020-03-23 20:29 -0700
    Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2020-03-24 11:13 +0000
      Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates Nathanael <cjeculver@gmail.com> - 2020-03-24 09:35 -0700
        Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2020-03-24 18:25 +0000
          Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates Nathanael <cjeculver@gmail.com> - 2020-03-24 16:06 -0700
            Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2020-03-25 06:58 +0000
            Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2020-03-25 10:46 -0500
              Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2020-03-25 16:14 +0000
                Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2020-03-25 17:21 -0500
                Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2020-03-26 07:06 +0000
  Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates Nathanael <cjeculver@gmail.com> - 2020-03-24 09:38 -0700
  Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates "dott.Piergiorgio" <chiedetemelo@ask.me> - 2020-03-30 08:43 +0200
    Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2020-03-30 06:48 +0000
      Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates "dott.Piergiorgio" <chiedetemelo@ask.me> - 2020-03-30 09:45 +0200
        Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2020-03-30 07:49 +0000
          Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates "dott.Piergiorgio" <chiedetemelo@ask.me> - 2020-03-30 10:48 +0200
            Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2020-04-01 16:43 +0000
    Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates Nathanael <cjeculver@gmail.com> - 2020-03-31 08:36 -0700
      Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates "dott.Piergiorgio" <chiedetemelo@ask.me> - 2020-04-02 12:37 +0200
        Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates Nathanael <cjeculver@gmail.com> - 2020-04-02 04:10 -0700
        Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2020-04-02 16:07 +0000
          Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates "dott.Piergiorgio" <chiedetemelo@ask.me> - 2020-04-04 20:23 +0200
            Re: *HUMONGOUS* CP/M Archives issues and updates Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2020-04-04 18:37 +0000

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