@foone

But, on the other hand, DO use the #octal encoding that you gave.

It's vis(1) encoding, and used (say) in #FreeBSD's fstab(5) so that no field contains whitespace & the file can thus be reliably processed with conventional text processing tools like awk.

This is not the case for fstab(5) on systems that don't apply unvis(3) decoding; where awk either gets the fields wrong when there's whitespace or gets stymied by quoting systems that don't match how awk understands flat files.

#Unix

On a trail in West Palm Beach, #Florida, location posts are numbered in #octal. It is also a nice #sunset.

@xpil

There are 10 kinds of people.

Czech Czech, won (1), too (10), free (11), fofum (100, 101), i smell the blood of an Englishman.

Yeah, 10 kinds 😜

#tallship #octal #hexadecimal #binary

On the other hand, I'm excited to finally be able to use #Octal and #Metatext on the desktop.