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    From The Millionaire@the.millionaire@vert.synchro.net.remove-aa-this to Digital Man on Sun Apr 26 01:20:42 2020
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    To: Digital Man

    Re: Text.dat question
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sat Apr 25 2020 01:47 pm

    No, they could be any character. It depends on the context.

    digital man

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    But never used as a word representation though, right? For ex. %c = leave.

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  • From Digital Man@digital.man@vert.synchro.net.remove-7u1-this to The Millionaire on Sun Apr 26 01:33:29 2020
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    To: The Millionaire
    Re: Text.dat question
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sat Apr 25 2020 06:20 pm


    Re: Text.dat question
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sat Apr 25 2020 01:47 pm

    No, they could be any character. It depends on the context.

    Re: Text.dat question
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sat Apr 25 2020 01:47 pm

    No, they could be any character. It depends on the context.

    But never used as a word representation though, right? For ex. %c = leave.

    No, only ever a single character.

    digital man

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  • From Gamgee@gamgee@PALANT.remove-5nq-this to The Millionaire on Sun Apr 26 03:16:00 2020
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    To: The Millionaire
    The Millionaire wrote to Digital Man <=-

    I noticed a lot of %c in the text.dat. Are they all punctuation
    or special characters?

    You're *STILL* obsessing over text.dat? I thought you had gotten
    over that.

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  • From Rampage@rampage@SESTAR.remove-goi-this to The Millionaire on Sun Apr 26 16:26:46 2020
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    To: The Millionaire
    Re: Text.dat question
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Sat Apr 25 2020 18:20:42


    But never used as a word representation though, right?
    For ex. %c = leave.

    HINT: *single* character


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