OT: Location and GPS

From: Stan Barr <stanb_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Thu Jan 30 13:17:00 2003

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!
-- 
Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb_at_dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Received on Thu Jan 30 2003 - 13:17:00 GMT

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