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- From: pyramid!utzoo!henry (Henry Spencer)
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 86 19:48:36 CST
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- > There are also programs (the shell comes to mind) that use the eighth
- > bit for their own purposes. I believe the shell uses it as a quote
- > indicator...
-
- I believe that in recent times, AT&T has made strenuous efforts to stamp
- out such extraneous uses of the 8th bit, so that full 8-bit character sets
- could be used. I know other vendors have as well. So this objection will
- not be valid much longer, even if it remains valid today.
-
- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry
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- Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 36
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