Subj : Re: PI to 104 Decimal Pla
To   : KURT WEISKE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sat Aug 30 2025 13:58:12

>  Most of what I use the calculator on my desk for it converting decimal
>  to hex and vice versa. Fidonet technology, when passing files back and
>  forth, uses the hex representation of the decimal network and node
>  number for file names, and figuring out which file goes to who can be
>  tricky.

That has always frustrated me because we dealt with hex at work all the
time, and the hex values I see on an FTN do *not* equal what we used at
work.  Granted, ours were *usually* EBCDIC but even the ASCII values are
not "right."

How did you do it on a calculator?  That might be handy to know.

>  Although, Synchronet's echocfg utility, where you define nodes, now
>  displays the net/node number in hex. Handy!

Yes it does.

Mike

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