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colanderman on Jan 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the...

Interesting to see ASCII SOH/STX/ETX in the wild! (^A, ^B, ^C in the .RCV files.)

papercrane on Jan 20, 2023 [–]

Those are pretty standard ACARS messages. It's the only time I've seen SOH/STX/ETX used, probably because originally in the 70s they were designed to be typed used with Telex machines.

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