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shemnon42 | 3 years ago

Was the file in ASCII when it should have been in EBCDIC?

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defrost|3 years ago

That's just silly.

Obviously it was due to details being entered using the now standard International foot when the software expected the now obsolete US survey foot [1] .. the discrepency across a transcontinental flight was large enough for a pilot to fall through.

[1] https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/01/new-years-eve-...

soneil|3 years ago

My money would have been on a byte-order mark