Re: VMs: A very important discovery!!

[steve ekwall <ekwall2@xxxxxxxx>]

 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:01:48 -0600 (MDT)
 From: Koontz John E <John.Koontz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 Subject: Re: VMs: A very important discovery!!
 
 On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Jose Rodriguez wrote:
 >    This last Saturday I was comparing different texts
 > to the VMS. By chance, I was investigating the
 > functions of a text editor called Editplus®_v2.11. I
 > found a function that would sort the text by the fist
 > word of each line.
 
 What bothers me about suggestions that gallows characters (EVA tkpf) in
 certain positions in a line or on a page mark key sequences, is that
 actually gallows characters seem to be fairly well distributed within
 lines and pages.  I think it's true that they are a bit more common nearer
 the front of a word, wherever that word occurs, but that's about it, as
 far as I can see.  Ridderstad takes a slightly different position by
 simply saying that wherever they occur they select a coding table till the
 next one appears, so that it doesn't matter to her where they occur.
 
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Using the FOLDing key (or folding your key piece of paper) you have 
BOTH A-Z and 1-9 on both side of the #### areas. Having sampled 
scribed it myself, it is many times easier (esp. changing to numbers 
from alpha _char_ ) to just insert the gallows MID.Word. 

reason being, if you know ahead of time you going to start 
spouting/listing numerals, you can use a c_gallows_c flip over key as 
a type of heads up.. (pay attention).. here (to yourself or future 
decoder).. YOU Don't lose a single key stroke, but have at this point 
~switched your KEY~ 

in the above case.. the vms should decode with many (see mid.word 
c_gallows_c in ms) "numbers" etc.. 

finally (just being 1 of 12 here (sorry)), the actual distribution of 
gallows (as it's random) is really just up to the scriber. i think i 
sense less ~flipping~ near the end pages. 

hope that helps all
-=se=-
steve (flip.flop = mirror :-)) ekwall
 

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