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    Default Re: How do I translate binary to text?

    You would need to know what the encoding used is. I think ascii uses 7 bits per character, but you need at least 5 for a-z or 6 for a-Z. Alternatively, you could try decoding it as Morse code, but that also uses the time between pulses to tell when a character or word finishes, so it is ambiguous if you just have the dots and dashes.
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