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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Print SCSI Inquiry data more compactly
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:23:22 -0600
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On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 12:14:22AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Philip R. Auld wrote:
> >I know they're fixed size fields. I'm not good at counting spaces 
> >that's why I offered the suggestion of some sort of field sep character.
> 
> Matthew, what about | as separator? Or is it used in ROMs too?

It's allowed to use anything in the range 0x20 to 0x7e.  See SPC 4,
section 4.4.1.  To be honest, I think separating it with anything other
than space is a bad idea; it makes it look more like it's encoded than
an informational string for the user.