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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Portability of ASCII across Unixes (was Re: How do I get .login to pause ?)
- In-Reply-To: hsc@sybase.com's message of 21 Aug 92 00:28:14 GMT
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- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 03:09:35 GMT
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- HC> == Howard Cohen <hsc@sybase.com>
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- HC> Any *Unix* machine, yes. So name one that doesn't support ASCII.
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- I bet something running AIX/370 is still thinking in EBCDIC.
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- Of course, whether or not you define that as a Unix machine... ;)
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