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Originally posted by Ricky

But the one thing I can't figure out, Dave, is how you would code for that Baudot code. Did you just do one long switch statement? Or was it all done by hand?

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char Codes[2][32] = {
                     {'b','T','n','O',' ','H','N','M',
                      'r','L','R','G','I','P','C','V',
                      'E','Z','D','B','S','Y','F','X',
                      'A','W','J',  1,'U','Q','K',  0},

                     {'b','5','n','9',' ','u',',','.',
                      'r',')','4','&','8','0',':',';',
                      '3','"','$','?','b','6','!','/',
                      '-','2','\'', 1,'7','1','(',  0}
                    };

int cset = 0;
int cout = 0;

void rout(DWORD ch)

{
   printf("%02lX",ch);
   cout++;
   if (cout>=4)
   {
      printf(" ");
      cout = 0;
   }
}

void outp(char ch, int lv)

{
   if (lv>=3)
   {
      printf("Cannot encode '%c'\n",ch);
      return;
   }
   if ((ch>='a') && (ch<='z'))
      ch = ch - ('a'-'A');
   for (int i=0;i<32;i++)
   {
      if (Codes[cset][i]==ch)
      {
         rout((DWORD)i);
         return;
      }
   }
   if (cset==0)
   {
      cset = 1;
      rout(27);
      outp(ch,lv+1);
      return;
   }
   cset = 0;
   rout(31);
   outp(ch,lv+1);
}

void main(void)

{
   char outt[] = "This is a test.";

   for (int i=0;i<strlen(outt);i++)
      outp(outt[i],0);
}

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Originally posted by Ricky

Well shit Dave, an OR bitshift? Come on, how the hell am I supposed to see that? Alright, I probably should have at least thought along those lines, which I didn't, but still...

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I'm just glad I gave up when I did, I could have spent years on that and never figured it out. Very well done.

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I'll code up an algorithm to decode it and then make my final code (at least for the time being) in the morning.

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50 4B 03 04 14 00 00 00 08 00 A6 B9 C6 32 3C 1D 9A D1 71 02 00 00 4E 04 00 00
0C 00 00 00 74 6F 5F 72 69 63 6B 79 2E 74 78 74 4D 54 CD 4E DC 40 0C BE 23 F1
0E 66 2F 7B 09 B4 EA 0B 20 2A 10 5A A9 2D 07 A0 3D 7B 13 27 33 DD C9 4C 3A 9E
90 E6 ED FB 79 B2 A0 DE 36 89 FD FD D9 DE DD D3 EB CB FD DD CB C3 3D FD 3A BC
7C 3B FC 78 7C BC BD BA BD DA 11 1D F6 23 C5 54 48 DE 24 92 CE 59 C8 F7 54 1C
97 BD 12 53 16 0E E4 A3 CE A1 50 CA 56 D8 90 26 34 85 40 AC 3A 8F 28 AF 95 6D
99 39 84 15 2D 6D 1A A7 E0 47 89 28 E5 D8 91 F2 4A 7B 00 C6 13 AD 69 DE 03 0D
A8 3A A5 A8 72 43 74 D7 17 C9 84 D6 86 0E C4 55 8A F3 71 30 11 A6 6A C8 DC FA
34 6B 83 A7 DB CB 8B CB 8B BB B8 2E BC 36 54 01 95 7A 88 9A 7C 7B B2 16 A3 EE
84 16 5F 1C AA A9 E3 31 D2 34 47 53 56 7C 8A 46 EC 0B 71 D9 D8 CC 62 B5 07 D1
FD B5 F5 8F A2 2A DD D6 3F 9A B6 03 4D 39 1D F9 88 8A 36 CD A1 23 C7 6F 42 91
7D 40 19 A0 7E CF 5A A8 CF 69 A4 20 05 36 AE FB 2C 7F 66 89 2D 62 88 1C 56 F5
D0 ED B8 03 90 79 39 0A 12 96 BF 93 B4 C5 E8 74 E2 56 94 4A C2 87 77 21 CE 0F
8E 20 B5 8A 0B 5E 0B 54 3C 3B 11 75 37 66 FE C9 21 D2 DA 82 24 33 06 E2 07 0F
22 02 A9 9A C5 66 7B DF FB 0C 61 16 46 57 4D F1 00 9E 91 3B 9B 15 3D 3F 3C 7C
07 F4 49 AC B6 AA 33 52 CC 60 53 56 A3 D2 1A EF E6 CF A5 C9 D4 56 45 3B 53 25
8C B7 29 0A 4D 92 35 C5 1D 2D 35 1B 98 40 52 62 E2 B0 01 42 F3 B4 25 A9 F6 A0
29 A3 A7 37 9B 68 A9 75 1C 75 01 AB 0D 10 42 E0 F3 A9 B7 94 B3 4A 43 3F E1 E9
23 FA AA 22 A4 74 82 1B 80 3B AF F8 E6 D1 A6 A8 6E A5 2E D9 27 3C 3E A6 34 D8
60 40 5C 9C 00 2B 67 F8 39 F3 34 67 98 77 DF FF CD B3 83 97 F3 A6 4E 9C 0D 40
6D 43 B6 C1 16 A3 C3 44 53 87 10 AE 6D B5 A5 F8 BA 4D C5 C1 4C B7 8D 25 56 46
6C 2E 0C 21 B8 AE A1 8F A0 8C 0C BF 72 04 B0 4B 8B 39 A8 70 42 5F 79 EE EC EE
58 7D 58 6D DB F6 F5 56 1A A4 AC B6 FE 76 2C 90 81 BB CC 9B 50 86 32 A9 81 D9
30 9A 1D 1D E7 F3 0E 7E F9 4C 2B 38 A0 7B 48 76 47 0B 10 96 94 EB 55 40 2A 93
AE 5A 64 A4 C5 F9 D6 D1 EB 33 FE 05 CE EC A6 A4 2E 54 C9 08 6A C4 7E BC 2F 8C
DD 66 AC 6B 0E B4 B8 C7 F8 02 7C 89 37 93 37 FF 00 50 4B 01 02 14 00 14 00 00
00 08 00 A6 B9 C6 32 3C 1D 9A D1 71 02 00 00 4E 04 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 01 00 20 00 B6 81 00 00 00 00 74 6F 5F 72 69 63 6B 79 2E 74 78 74 50 4B 05
06 00 00 00 00 01 00 01 00 3A 00 00 00 9B 02 00 00 00 00

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Anyway, even if I had gone crypto it wouldn't have been as cool as I had idealized it....

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LONDON - Is Coldplay trying to tell us something with that multicolored symbol on the cover of their new album? Cubelike images adorn the packaging, both on the cover and the liner notes, of "X&Y," the British band's much-anticipated third album that was released Tuesday.

New Music Express asked a number of top art experts to figure out what the geometric figure on the cover means. They've concluded that it's a 19th-century telegraphic code known as the Baudot Code, or The International Telegraph Code Number One. It was used in teletype machines in the late 1800s.

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