[Verba] Re: Nemesis Coding: Taylor's solution completed

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Rebecca Chenette wrote:

>   Um,....i opened taylor's approach and I got a blank page. Is that what is
> supposed to happen?

If by "open" you mean run the program (a typically dangerous thing for
Windows to do with an email attachment), then you need to run it from
a command line.  The 'stdin' part means to read the "standard input"
as input.  At a command prompt, after starting the program, you
would then type/paste the binary, followed by a Control-D.  (Or maybe
on Windows it is still F6 like it was in DOS - can someone help
with that Window question?)

Another way of using "standard input" is to enter the data into a file.
For instance, use notepad or whatever to create a test file called
"msg1.txt" with the binary digits.  Then run the program with a
"redirect input" like this (the C:\work> is the Windows prompt, which
will vary with what your current directory is):

C:\work> python bin2.py <msg1.txt

This says to feed the contents of "msg1.txt" to the python program as
"standard input".

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