Hi,
Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com> said:
> It's 2003. Can't the government use some lowercase letters for fuck's
> sake?
>
I don't know about this particular message, but noticess of this sort
frequently have to be broadcast on HF and LF radio in RTTY, TOR or
NAVTEX which are 5-bit systems with no lower case. However they
could easily convert to all uppercase when they do the ASCII to Baudot
translation!
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb_at_dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Received on Thu Jan 30 2003 - 13:17:00 GMT