+-- used for extracting strings
+bin2ascii =
+ (\ b0 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 b7 ->
+ let f b i = if b then 1 `shiftL` i else 0
+ in Data.Char.chr (f b0 0 .|. f b1 1 .|. f b2 2 .|. f b3 3 .|. f b4 4 .|. f b5 5 .|. f b6 6 .|. f b7 7))
+--bin2ascii' =
+-- (\ f c -> let n = Char.code c in let h i = (n .&. (1 `shiftL` i)) /= 0 in f (h 0) (h 1) (h 2) (h 3) (h 4) (h 5) (h 6) (h 7))
+--shiftAscii =
+-- \ b c -> Data.Char.chr (((Char.code c) `shiftL` 1) .&. 255 .|. if b then 1 else 0)
+