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- From: curt@kcwc.com (Curt Welch)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Any way to *CREATE* Vcr+ (VCR PLUS) codes??? (please read)
- Message-ID: <29326@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 17:28:10 GMT
- References: <1iaa91INNhgr@agate.berkeley.edu> <PHR.93Jan5181948@napa.telebit.com>
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- Reply-To: curt@kcwc.com (Curt Welch)
- Organization: KCW Consulting
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- In sci.crypt, phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes:
- > You don't have to collect published codes, you can just sit down with the
- > VCR Plus+ device and start punching in numbers. But there are 9,999,999
- > 7 digit codes (and each one requires 9 button presses to test), so it can
- > take a long time to get enough numbers.
- >
- >What does pushing buttons on the device tell you? Doesn't pushing
- >a number like 1952037 cause the device to send some infrared pulses
- >at a particular time which is difficult to predict from the number
- >alone? Or does the device somehow display what is going to send and
- >when it is going to send them?
-
- Yes, it has an LCD display that shows you the start time, the channel, and
- the date. This allows you to confirm that you punched in the correct
- number. The duration is also shown using a bar graph (see the other
- article I just posted about this.)
-
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