Nice to see FORTH outside of PostScript. Barry, if you work with PostScript, email me off-list: I may have a job. If you ever need to convert text to or from hex or decimal ASCII, just see: http://www.piclist.com/techref/ascii.htm which, I humbly submit, is the best ASCII page on the net. There is also a script on the site to rotate "EVERYONE HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND" into "PU3%33M +V3J6 V 3AVH 3UOhJ3^3" which is great for sending a message that can be read by your intended reader an no one else without any decoding even when someone is looking over their shoulder. It's an interesting bit of JavaScript in that it grabs key presses from a textbox and translates them on the fly: You type right side up, and the screen looks as if you were typing upside down. So you can compose messages with someone looking over your shoulder. Great for when the client is being a total ass and I need to get an "emergency" page from someone. Email me off-list if you want the (unpublished) link. I have a Morse code script, but I've never published it... I doubt anyone would use it and there are others available. If there was a way to collect audio and process it on a web page, I would love to provide a shortwave decoder web page for those times when... err... no, I don't suppose anyone would use that either... -- James. -----Original Message----- From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Barry Gershenfeld Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:48 To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Subject: RE: [OT] Everyone have a great weekend! >I'm sort of freaking out here because no one commented on >"PU3%33M +V3J6 V 3AVH 3UOhJ3^3" >Was it totally obvious and not worth of comment or is everyone's curiosity >just shut off at the moment? Sometimes I see stuff that I suspect would make sense to any pager-toting 12-yr-old, and just don't feel like investigating. Usually I've already chased a half-dozen links and it's time to get back to work. >45766572796F6E6520686176652061206772656174207765656B656E64 In this case, it was the hex that distracted me. I thought I had a program to translate this, but upon not finding one, I (re?)wrote it. First I did a little find and replace to put spaces in the codes. Then, a line or two of...FORTH =:-o : STR [ HEX ] 45 76 65 72 79 6F 6E 65 20 68 61 76 65 20 61 20 67 72 65 61 74 20 77 65 65 6B 65 6E 64 [ DECIMAL ] ; : RVH ( - ) DEPTH 0 DO SP0 @ I 1+ DUP + - C@ EMIT LOOP ; STR RVH As for Russell's "Beefessence", it must be like "best bent wire", but I'm gonna have to key it out a few times to see what the magic rhythm is. Barry -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist