Re: A83: Unsquish joke

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Re: A83: Unsquish joke


[prgmZPUREASM] "xyzxyz"            ;ascii 78797a78797a

now you add 1*size bytes

[prgmZPUREASM] "xyzxyz??????"

you redistribute the bytes (one step at a time:) the uppercase letters are
ofcourse actually lowercase, but here they indicate what byte you read & what
byte you write.

[prgmZPUREASM] "xyzxyZ????Z?"
[prgmZPUREASM] "xyzxYz??Y?z?"
[prgmZPUREASM] "xyzXyzX?y?z?"
[prgmZPUREASM] "xyZxZzx?y?z?"
[prgmZPUREASM] "xYYxzzx?y?z?"
[prgmZPUREASM] "Xyyxzzx?y?z?"

Now you just read one byte, overwrite it and the following byte, and move
ahead two bytes.

[prgmZPUREASM] "78yxzzx?y?z?"          ;'x'
[prgmZPUREASM] "7879zzx?y?z?"          ;'y'
[prgmZPUREASM] "78797ax?y?z?"          ;'z'
[prgmZPUREASM] "78797a78y?z?"          ;'x'
[prgmZPUREASM] "78797a7879z?"          ;'y'
[prgmZPUREASM] "78797a78797a"          ;'z'

and you're done!

Linus
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On 06-Mar-99, Scott Dial (homosapian@geocities.com) wrote:

>Good idea... but, how would you get the put together afterwards???

>Example:
>[PGRM ASC] 123
>           * * *
>[PRGM HEX] 1A2B3C
>            * * *
>[BUFFER]   ABC

>But how would I peice them together? I would need 2*Size still unless I
>shifted all the memory down one byte every other byte?

>Linus Akesson wrote:
>> 
>> On 05-Mar-99, Scott Dial (homosapian@geocities.com) wrote:
>> 
>> >Yeah, I did that, but I didn't think that having to have space for
>> >2*size was very practical.
>> 
>> Ok, then allocate 1*size bytes at the end, distribute the bytes over the
>> whole area, writing to every other byte. (Start from the end and go towards
>> the first byte.) Then you can unsquish one byte at a time.
>> 
>> Linus
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