[aprssig] New MSG-OBJ format (rev b)
Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)
ldeffenb at homeside.to
Wed Feb 22 15:00:58 EST 2012
To make it optional, it must be enclosed in brackets [] as you
originally proposed because otherwise a 2 character word at the
beginning of the comment would look like an overlayed symbol.
Inclusive of the [], that gives 4 characters for the second word for a
table/symbol specification, but if we want to allow a shorter
specification for the primary table, the / can be eliminated giving a 3
character second word. This would mean that [/b] and [b] would both be
a motorcycle, but the latter has one fewer special characters to be typed.
You are correct that a symbol spec always has 2 characters, a table or
overlay and a symbol within that table. The 3 character proposal
(including the brackets) was a short-cut for primary table symbols.
Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
On 2/22/2012 12:44 PM, Bob Bruninga wrote:
>> If you want, you could also support a 3 character word,
>> but still to be a symbol, the first and last characters
>> must be [ and ]. A 3 character word/symbol is in the primary table, IMHO.
> Help me here. All symbols can be indicated with two bytes. Did I miss
> something?
>
> Thanks
> Bob, WB4APR
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