C source code to extract CP/M ARK archives?

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri Feb 4 19:22:22 2005

>
> My point was not information density. My question really was,
> just how self-describing is ASCII? There have been plenty of ways

If you can recognise what constitues a 'character' (trivial on paper tape
or 9 track magtape, less obvious on bit-serial media like floppy disks),
and if you assemy there will still be enough ASCII-encoded text around
that some of it is in a normal human language, then the problem seems to
reduce to solving a monoalphabetic substitution cipher, which is
generally not too hard....

-tony
Received on Fri Feb 04 2005 - 19:22:22 GMT