17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
"tcm" == Timothy C May <tcmay@netcom.com> writes: tcm> Someone in Cypherpunks has a novel solution: print code in the tcm> most easily OCRable font---I think the suggestion was that OCR-A tcm> and OCR-B, or somesuch, are optimized for this (one would think tcm> so from the names, but I had thought they had something to do tcm> with the magnetic ink printing on checks...). One of the computer magazines ("Compute"?) in the '80s used to supply source in a bar code format which was readily scanned into one's machine using one of those "light wands." I don't know what export restrictions might apply to this distribution method. michael