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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 20 Jan 1995.
encoded listings?

encoded listings?

Hello,
I have seen in some postings a serie of lines with unreadable characters 
included between a begin and an end, followed by an indication of the type
sum -r/size number1/number2...

What is that supposed to be?

Thanks for any hints,
Charles

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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f996b,26bd06e1282efb74,start
X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-20 04:35:10 PST
Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.edu.tw!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!nctuccca.edu.tw!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!zib-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.dfn.de!scsing.switch.ch!aragorn.unibe.ch!vwi_17.unibe.ch!I94CLAVA
From: I94...@swss00.isbe.ch (Charles Clavadetscher)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: encoded listings?
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 12:35:10 GMT
Organization: University of Bern, Switzerland
Lines: 9
Message-ID: <I94...@swss00.isbe.ch>
NNTP-Posting-Host: vwi_17.unibe.ch
X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A]
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