Dimensional Measuring Interface
Standard
Standard Improvement Request
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SIR No. 97-44 DMIS Release 3.0 SIR Type Error Severity Documentation Deficiency Status Resolved Date Submitted August 11 1997 Date Validated August 11 1997 Date In Process Date Referred Date Vote Pending Date Closed April 1 1998 Action Clarifications Submitted By Thomas Kramer NIST Room B-124, Bldg. 220 Gaithersburg MD 20899 USA Phone: (301)975-3518 Fax: (301)990-9688 kramer@cme.nist.gov |
Problem Topic
Sect.2.1.1: Clarification in text
Problem Description
Page 5, section 2.1.1 reads "The only acceptable ASCII characters are
(decimal) numbers."
This obviously does not mean what it says, since the upper and lower case letters (and many other characters) are also used in DMIS. A statement about acceptable characters is included on Page 4, which seems to imply that any of the 128 ASCII characters may be used, at least in text strings.
My best guess at what the quoted statement means is: "In this specification, ASCII characters are often represented by the corresponding decimal (not hexadecimal) numbers from the ASCII character table."
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Suggested Resolution
Rewrite the paragraph to say what it means. If my guess is correct, the
proposed text could be used.
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Resolution
Warning!!
The following statement is only a resolution to a Standard Improvement Request (SIR) and is NOT part of the current DMIS standard, nor is it guaranteed to become part of the next revision of the DMIS standard even if voted and accepted by the DMIS National Standards Committee. This resolution is tentative because it may not be incorporated into the next version of the standard, it could be changed prior to the next release, or it could be changed as the result of the "public review and comment" period required for the next version of the standard. If you choose to use this tentative resolution, you do so at your own risk since at this time it is not part of the DMIS standard.
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