Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:11:06 04/01/03
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On April 01, 2003 at 17:00:58, Walter Faxon wrote: >On April 01, 2003 at 13:51:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>As far as Cray Blitz goes, you are probably correct unless I one day choose >>to go back and re-type about 60,000 lines of Fortran and 20,000 lines of >>assembly and debug it all again. No source files exist, no log files >>exist. All I have is printed stuff from those days now. >> >>Which is neither here nor there in terms of importance since it hasn't played >>chess in almost 10 years now anyway. > > >No Cray Blitz source files remain? Tragedy! > >If the printed stuff includes source, you should definitely encourage one of >your students to scan it and correct it at least through a clean parse -- maybe >for "extra credit". ;) > >-- Walter I tried this. i's and l's are horrible, as are O and 0 and several other characters. I helped someone spend a _day_ debugging a 300 line program that was scanned in. BTW these printouts are _not_ from a laser printer. They are from older dot-matrix printers, which should give a hint at the problem. They were made on good paper, with new ribbons. But a scanner is hopeless for OCR purposes... At least on this source.
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