Re: in over my head ascii

mensanator@xxxxxxx wrote:
What do you bet the server software was written by someone
who thought ASCII STX meant literally the characters "STX"?

Wouldn't explain the "ENX" instead of "ETX".

I've seen stupider things.

I give it 25% probability of being what you said, and 75% probability
that they didn't want to send any characters that couldn't be printed
in plaintext.

I've seen literally dozens of this kind of roll-your-own serial
protocol in the past few years, and they're all indicative that no two
are alike. Ever read the ARINC 429 documents? They'll curl your toes.

--Blair
"It's protocols all the way down."

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