Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.40.0110190837460.21513-100000@panix2.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: CYBERMIND@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: Re: bcd
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:39:24 -0400
Actually anyone can do this! It's a little-known command, bcd, in Unix, that for some reason codes texts into card images. I'm not sure why... My first computer work was done with Gregert Johnson years ago on punch- cards, time-series analyses of 5000 "random" characters typed into a computer, looking for indications of determinism in the result. Alan Internet text at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt Partial at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm CDROM of collected work 1994-2000/1 available: write sondheim@panix.com