Right after you tell me about the bitwise operators in MUMPS! Actually, though you can't do bit arithmetic in MUMPS, you do have $A() and $C() so its quite possible to perform ordinary arithmetic on character values, so something like base64 shouldn't be too hard.
Fileman even provides a basic hex encoding tool, unfortunately misnamed $$HTML^DILF. It works like this: >W $$HTML^DILF("This^is^a^delimited^string",1) This^is^a^delimited^string (a second argument of -1 performs the inverse operation). I've used this call a number of times, particularly in input/output transforms. --- Ruben Safir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey - Then we can just lift the code and translate it! > > Ruben === Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Design quality doesn't ensure success, but design failure can ensure failure." --Kent Beck ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members