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Re: GRUB and boot partition

From	Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: GRUB and boot partition
Date	2018-01-06 13:10 +0100
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On 06/01/18 03:56, Gary Dale wrote:
> One once-popular code was to replace all words in a message with 2
> numbers each, referring to a page & word number within an agreed-upon
> book. If you used it electronically, you could send a binary file where
> each original word was reduced to 2 bytes.

That would restrict your choice of book quite a bit - or at least, you'd
only be able to use a small part of most/many books. I guess you can
optimise it by not splitting the numbers at the byte boundary.

Richard

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Re: GRUB and boot partition Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-01-02 20:40 +0100
  Re: GRUB and boot partition Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2018-01-03 15:50 +0100
    Re: GRUB and boot partition David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-01-03 20:10 +0100
      Re: GRUB and boot partition Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2018-01-05 16:30 +0100
        Re: GRUB and boot partition Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-01-06 13:10 +0100

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