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sn#027187 filedate 1973-02-27 generic text, type T, neo UTF8
00100 00100 THINK ABOUT THE TELETYPE PROBLEM. THE FILE REPRESENTATION,
00200 00200 MANUAL REPR., TERMINAL REPR., LPT REPR., AND XGP REPR. MAY ALL
00300 00300 BE DEIFFERENT FOR SOME TERMINAL SYMBOL. WHERE SHOULD THE CONVERSION
00400 00400 BE DONE CERTAINLY, THE FILE, MANUAL, AND INTERNAL REPR. CAN AGREE.
00500 00500 SO IT'S DURING I/O /TERMINAL THAT CONVERSION IS DONE. LISP70
00600 00600 NEEDS A CONVERSION TABLE. HOWEVER, WHAT IF [ IS REPR. BY $( IN
00700 00700 ONE SYNTACTIC CONTEXT BUT BY < IN ANOTHER IT SEEMS AS IF
00800 00800 THE CONVERSION TABLE ACTIVE MUST BE SELECTABLE BY CONTEXT LIKE THE
00900 00900 SCANNER. MAYBE THE SCANNER ITSELF SHOULD BE THE CONVERSION TABLE.
01000 01000 I.E., THERE IS A SCANNER FOR [LISP70,TI-TERMINAL], ONE FOR
01100 01100 [LISP70,MODEL-33], ONE FOR [SEXPR,TI-TERMINAL], ETC.
01200 01200 QUESTION: CAN THEY SHARE STATES TO SAVE SPACE I.E., CAN THEY BE
01300 01300 COMPILED AS A GROUP MORE COMPACTLY THAN AS INDIVIDUALS
01400 01400
01500 22-FEB-73 TES (DATE APPROX)
01600 02800 For list of character sets, see PRUNE.DAT[XGP,TVR] or KSETS.LOG[XGP,TVR].
01700 02900 Bruce has a program for reading characters from a TV camera and do
01800 03000 slantly and reduction/expansion in X or Y direction. Unfortunately,
01900 03100 someone who knows how to use it (i.e. myself or BGB) would have to
02000 03200 show you as it is not much easier than the Foonly drawing program to
02100 03300 understand from scratch.
02200 03400
02300 03500 Tovar
02400 03600 04-FEB-73 1414 XGP,TVR