-----Original Message----- From: Hank Nussbacher [mailto:hank@att.net.il] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 11:35 AM To: Roeland Meyer Cc: 'Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu' Subject: Re: Inane ... even for NANOG.

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:

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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 9:57 AM

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On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:22:52 PST, Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>said:

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16.1.16.1; I don't Sorry, it was the hex representation, of course.

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HEX:=="313631313631"

I think the intended value was 0x10011001

And the signifigance of this bit pattern is ...?

[from too many decades doing assembly level communications

drivers to handle

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both ASCII/EIA and EBCDIC. Nothing there is either special or amusing, anymore. Not for decades.]

so ... who is Fifi?

15 in hex is x'0f'. 16 is x'1f'. 15.1.15.1 would be fifi. 16.1.16.1 is something else.

15 = 0x0f 16 = 0x10 011001011001 it still makes no sense.