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- From: dtb@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au (David Bath)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: Portability of ASCII across Unixes
- Message-ID: <dtb.714876788@otto>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 00:53:08 GMT
- References: <22412@sybase.sybase.com> <Bt4qL6.JpA@root.co.uk> <22651@sybase.sybase.com> <1992Aug25.024553.5085@physiol.su.OZ.AU>
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- I seem to remember problems with Pr1me boxes and "pascii"
- (whas it prime-ascii or puke-ascii?)
- add 0200 to EVERYTHING because parity bits were always on
- (so what was the point of it ?)
- And so where is Pr1me now ? ....
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