Bev
(Weather Guru)
Fri Jul 08 2005 11:01 PM
Re: Maybe it's just me...

Quote:

Does anyone know if the powers that be (NWS, NHC, etc.) buy discount keyboards that have stuck Caps-Lock keys? Very minor nit-pick, I know, but why in the heck are all the advisories in all caps? Sorry, this is probably WAY OT...



Is easier to translate the data into other types of machines since lower and upper case are completely different binary codes. Since those text messages are auto-imported into so many different programs and types of machines, is the sensible way to do it. Makes transcoding between unix and windows type machines easier.

I hope that was in english. :-)

-Bev
Computer Science Engineer - which makes me very bad at weather forecasting. :-)


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