Re: New XYENC 1/13/09 release

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Wally,
I've given XYENC/XYDEC a brief try and I see what the value is. I have a
couple of questions to which you must have obvious answers.

1. Why are underlines used instead of spaces?
2. Why is ;*; encoded to something other than ;*; and, given that it is
encoded, why to: ',*','^
3. Encoding U2 routines went flawlessly. But when I try to encode something
very simple, I get a lot of apparent garbage in the .ENC file produced.
E.g., this:



gave this:

'01-20-2009 22:09:04
~~~Z~GH~209~224~254~014~139~_~163~203Y~142~F~159
~X3~219~137~^6Y~232~128~@X~162~139~_~195~247~F~215~M~F~@u~U~161
~209~M',~F4Yu~M~142~F~159~X~198~F~156~K~A~232~E~@~195~232x!03;
h-~F~156~146R~232O~AS~161~201~MH~209~224',~216v~B~139~216',~^
~201Ys~D~139~^~201Y~137~^~203Y~199~F~201Y~@~@[X~157r~C~232&~A
~^~G~139~203~209~233~1916Y~2523~192~242~>~209~225+~217~131~235
~Bv~L~139~1836Y~K~246t~243~232~T~@~195~232~A~@~1953~219~1396
~209~M~198~F~156~K~A~232~A~@~195',6~211~Ms~H~1396~211~M~1376
~209~M',6~213~Mv~D~1396~213~MS~232~129~254~021~054[~232~254~000
~135>~196Y~161~201~M=!3E;~245~\2~228~160~]~N~128>~130~X~Kt~P
~160~147~X~128>~208~M~_u~B~254~200~042~F~]~N~209~224~163~213
Y~161~143~X~209~224~163~215Y~232C~254~020~054~135~1836Y~139>
~196Y~190~159~X~2323~254~009~047~142~F~159~Xr3~161~201~M@u~_
~161'|6~209~232~139~V~147~X~128>~208~M~_u~AJ+~V~197~MJ',~208
s~B~139~194~163~201~M~128>~156~K~@t~G~246~F~156~K~Bt~A~195~139
~1836Y',6~213~Mr~QV~232H~254~161~054Y~163~209~M^r~D~232O~254
~195~0596H~Nr~G3~246~1376H~NN~1376F~N~161~225~M',~F~_~Ns~C~161
~_~N~163~199Y~160#~N~162~198Y~248~195~161~_~N~232~J~@~195',~F
[BIG SNIP]
~~~Z
Interestingly, despite its length--166,432 bytes--it decoded back to the
original!



Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx