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From: Curt Timmerman <cbt@dart.thomsoft.com>
Subject: Re: encryption classes
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Doug Marker wrote:
> 
> David,
> Thanks for the note - the more I looked into smalltalk (IBM) the more I
> realised it was going to be very difficult to code any form of
> encryption in the language (no bitshifting, xor, and, (or) or operators)

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Doug,

If you look a little more you will find the bit manipulation methods 
under the Integer and SmallInteger class in IBM Smalltalk (and probably 
also in VW).

Hope it helps.

Curt Timmerman
Thomson Software Products
