Re: [boost] [review] pqs

From: Andy Little (andy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-08 07:28:52

Hi Paul,

"Paul A Bristow" wrote
>|  -----Original Message-----
> |  From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
> |  [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Andy Little
> |  Sent: 08 June 2006 11:39
> |  To: boost_at_[hidden]
> |  Subject: Re: [boost] [review] pqs
>
> |  In the output area one think lacking is going beyond ASCII.
> |  It would be nice to output Ohms as O rather than R for example.
> |  Any help with that would be  appreciated too.
>
> It all goes back to 8 hole paper tape - where one hole was misguidedly
> reserved for parity.
>
> One of the Great Computing Disasters :-((
>
> (Thankfully, magnetic 1/2 inch tape was made 9 track, or we would have 7
> bits per byte).

We havent moved on much!

Your post is particularly amusing because the sentence including the text " Ohms 
as O" in your reply has been magically transformed in the round trip. What has 
been returned to me as a Capital O was sent as  the electronic symbol for ohms 
at considerable trouble. I went in to MS Word, selected the ohms symbol and 
pasted it in, with some sort of vague hope that it might survive the trip.

regards
Andy Little