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- You're about halfway through your shift at the Davis Very Large Array
- Radio Observatory (DVLARO), located in a desolate stretch of the U.S.'s
- Desert Southwest. The observatory's current project, SETI (search for
- extra-terrestrial intelligence), is usually fairly dull, and tonight is
- no exception...
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- Then, the telescopes intercept a strong, steady signal. It seems,
- initially, at least, to be composed of a two-tone pulsed signal, with
- brief pauses scattered throughout. The data saved to disk at your remote
- terminal to the DVLARO represents the pauses as zeros, the 978-Hz tones as
- 1s, and the 1956-Hz tones as 2s.
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- Your task is to decode the signal. If you feel that you need extra
- hints, look carefully at the MSG_INTERPRET program's output screen, while
- it runs. It'll give you an idea of what the DVLARO's moderately well-
- written AI routines *think* they have seen in the message.
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- This fun little piece of work is produced by Barnesbay Software, a custom
- programming and shareware company. Donations or just comments are welcome!
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- Disclaimer : all persons, organizations, & cetera mentioned in this work are
- purely fictitious, and any resemblance to persons, organizations, & cetera,
- dead/defunct/lost or alive/funct/found is utterly coincidental.
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- Warrantee : if the program or associated text files break, you can have both
- pieces. No other warantee is available. The only disk operation performed
- by this program is to write out the signal data, which it will tell you it
- is doing. This program is utterly useless for predicting sunspots, women's
- hemlines, or stock market crashes. Must I go on?
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- Thank you for choosing to use this fine software product, from Barnesbay
- Software.
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- Lars D. Hedbor, 22 September 1991
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- (minor documentation revisions 15 January 1993)
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