Re: [ntp:questions] Strange refid

2013-11-12 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 12, 2013, at 3:00 PM, David Woolley wrote: > There are, by definition, no ASCII characters with code points higher than > 127. The original (1960s) ASCII character set was 7-bit only. 8-bit variants of ASCII which preserved the 0-127 range and added graphics or printable characters from

Re: [ntp:questions] Strange refid

2013-11-12 Thread David Woolley
On 12/11/13 16:27, John Hasler wrote: ASCII characters with the high bit turned on are control characters. "M-" is a common notation for control as in "M-J" for "control-J". There are, by definition, no ASCII characters with code points higher than 127. I think Meta- is an EMACS thing. ___

Re: [ntp:questions] Strange refid

2013-11-12 Thread Erwan David
John Hasler disait le 11/12/13 que : > Brian Utterback writes: >> However, it begs the question of why somebody thought that printing >> "M-" before characters with the high order bit turned on would be a >> good idea. > > ASCII characters with the high bit turned on are control characters. Or s

Re: [ntp:questions] Strange refid

2013-11-12 Thread Brian Utterback
On 11/12/2013 1:02 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2013-11-12, John Hasler wrote: Brian Utterback writes: However, it begs the question of why somebody thought that printing "M-" before characters with the high order bit turned on would be a good idea. ASCII characters with the high bit turned on a

Re: [ntp:questions] Strange refid

2013-11-12 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-11-12, John Hasler wrote: > Brian Utterback writes: > > However, it begs the question of why somebody thought that printing > > "M-" before characters with the high order bit turned on would be a > > good idea. > > ASCII characters with the high bit turned on are control characters. No, t

Re: [ntp:questions] Strange refid

2013-11-12 Thread John Hasler
Brian Utterback writes: > However, it begs the question of why somebody thought that printing > "M-" before characters with the high order bit turned on would be a > good idea. ASCII characters with the high bit turned on are control characters. "M-" is a common notation for control as in "M-J" fo

Re: [ntp:questions] Strange refid

2013-11-12 Thread Greg Troxel
Brian Utterback writes: > On> However, it begs the question of why somebody thought that printing > "M-" before characters with the high order bit turned on would be a > good idea. Because ASCII is 7 bits and it is conventional to encode (in 8 bits) Meta as a modifier by setting the high bit.

Re: [ntp:questions] Strange refid

2013-11-12 Thread Brian Utterback
On 11/11/13 01:35, A C wrote: Anyone care to explain what this refid means? This is from the billboard on one of my machines. This came from the round-robin DNS pool but I couldn't tell you which round-robin provided it other than one of the North America or US pools. 204.109.63.243 .M-F.\..

Re: [ntp:questions] Strange refid

2013-11-12 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2013-11-11, A C wrote: > Anyone care to explain what this refid means? This is from the > billboard on one of my machines. This came from the round-robin DNS > pool but I couldn't tell you which round-robin provided it other than > one of the North America or US pools. > > 204.109.63.243 .M-

Re: [ntp:questions] Strange refid

2013-11-12 Thread Thomas Laus
On 2013-11-12, David Lord wrote: > > Are either WWV(various hf) or WWVB(60kHz) still online? > David: Thay are all still on the air. http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwv.cfm Tom -- Public Keys: PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1 GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF __

Re: [ntp:questions] Strange refid

2013-11-12 Thread David Lord
A C wrote: On 11/11/2013 13:38, E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists wrote: On 11/10/2013 10:35 PM, A C wrote: Anyone care to explain what this refid means? This is from the billboard on one of my machines. This came from the round-robin DNS pool but I couldn't tell you