Subject: Re: LEDs, LCDs and so on (was Re: More SPARCbook insanity )
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/19/2005 13:48:52
Am Dienstag, den 19.04.2005, 12:44 +0100 schrieb Patrick Welche:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:12:28PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, maximum entropy wrote:
> > > Greywolf wrote:
> > > >[Thus spake Michael ("M: ") 7:50am...]
> > > >M:
> > > >M:                          `.'     becomes `_*'
> > > >M:                          `-'     becomes `_***'
> > > >M:                          ` '     becomes `__'
> > > >M:                          `\n'    becomes `____'
> > 
> > To interpret this, you also have to read the part of the FreeBSD led(4)
> > man page that explains that "_" means 0.1 seconds with LED off, and "*"
> > means 0.1 seconds with LED on.  It's unstated, but implied, that dot,
> > dash, space, and newline, are the only valid inputs to the morse code
> > interpreter.
> 
> Which from maximum entropy's note suggests that ` ' should be `_______'
> (I wonder if I could tell the difference between `_' and `__')
> 
> More peanut shooting :-)

Why not PCM? ;)

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which could result in dimming the LED ;)
(I wonder where I saw this... Guru-Medidation on Amiga?)

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Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>