Subject: Re: LEDs, LCDs and so on (was Re: More SPARCbook insanity )
To: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/19/2005 12:44:56
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 :-)

Patrick