In Iain M. Banks's Excession there is several discussion between spaceships that are in a format that look like a log file. it look like this  :

(GCU Grey Area signal sequence file #n428857/119)
.
[swept-to-tightbeam, M16.4, [email protected]]
xGSV Honest Mistake oGCU Grey Area Take a look at this:

oo

(Signal sequence #n428855/1446, relay:)

oo

1. oo

2. C2314992+52
   xFATC @ n4.28.855.

oo

3. [swept beam, M2, relay, received@ n4.28.855.0079-]:
   xGCU Fate Amenable To Change.
   oGSV Ethics Gradient
   & as requested:
   Significant developmental anomaly.
   C4629984+523
   (@n28.855.0065.43392).

And so on...

Is there a cheat sheet or something that could help me to extract all the information contained in the headers and other sections of those discussions?

In Iain M. Banks's Excession, there are several discussions between spaceships that are in a format that looks like a log file. It looks like this:

(GCU Grey Area signal sequence file #n428857/119)
.
[swept-to-tightbeam, M16.4, [email protected]]
xGSV Honest Mistake oGCU Grey Area Take a look at this:

oo

(Signal sequence #n428855/1446, relay:)

oo

1. oo

2. C2314992+52
   xFATC @ n4.28.855.

oo

3. [swept beam, M2, relay, received@ n4.28.855.0079-]:
   xGCU Fate Amenable To Change.
   oGSV Ethics Gradient
   & as requested:
   Significant developmental anomaly.
   C4629984+523
   (@n28.855.0065.43392).

And so on...

Is there a cheat sheet or something that could help me to extract all the information contained in the headers and other sections of those discussions?

In Iain M. Banks's Excession there is several discussion between spaceships that are in a format that look like a log file.

(I would like to quote a passage here, but my version of the book is a translation, So I guess it won't help. I would be glad if someone could add one.)

Is there a cheat sheet or something that could help me to extract all the information contained in the headers and other sections of those discussions?

In Iain M. Banks's Excession there is several discussion between spaceships that are in a format that look like a log file. it look like this :

(GCU Grey Area signal sequence file #n428857/119)
.
[swept-to-tightbeam, M16.4, [email protected]]
xGSV Honest Mistake oGCU Grey Area Take a look at this:

oo

(Signal sequence #n428855/1446, relay:)

oo

1. oo

2. C2314992+52
   xFATC @ n4.28.855.

oo

3. [swept beam, M2, relay, received@ n4.28.855.0079-]:
   xGCU Fate Amenable To Change.
   oGSV Ethics Gradient
   & as requested:
   Significant developmental anomaly.
   C4629984+523
   (@n28.855.0065.43392).

And so on...

Is there a cheat sheet or something that could help me to extract all the information contained in the headers and other sections of those discussions?