Better indexing on bitsavers

Paul Koning pkoning at equallogic.com
Tue May 24 08:42:46 CDT 2005


>>>>> "Al" == Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> writes:

 >> a much better delimiting character for anything you do is the
 >> vertical line | because it rarely if ever shows up in text either
 >> machine generated or hand-written

 Al> There are four of them in your .signature

:-)  Not only that, but no matter what character you pick you must
define an escape scheme in case that character does appear.  Given
that you've done this, the choice of character no longer matters
(unless saving bits is an issue -- in which case you're better off
looking at compression algorithms).

	paul



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