Comments on PGP5.0 OCR (was Re: fyi, pgp source now available , internationally)

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On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Adam Back wrote:

> Mark Grant <mark at unicorn.com> writes:
> > 
> > I just wanted to make a few comments on the proofreading, in case anyone
> > feels like releasing software in a similar manner in future:
> > 
> > [...] the OCR-ed pages at HIP included a per-line
> > checksum. This was good... but... it also checksummed the whitespace. 
> > This wasn't a problem in theory, because tabs were indicated by a special
> > character. However, most lines had both tabs *and* spaces and there was no
> > way to see where the spaces were because they were overrriden by the tab
> > (e.g. "mov<sp><tab>ax,23<sp><sp><tab><sp><tab>; Stuff"). 
> 
> How about a book full of 2D barcodes?  

Or just put everything through GNU indent and publish the .indent.pro
file, so that after whatever is scanned in, all the .c and .h files will
automagically be fixed.

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