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- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 17:47:49 PDT
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- From: Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
- In-Reply-To: Message of Tue,
- 1 Sep 1992 05:25:50 GMT from <mwm@CONTESSA.PALO-ALTO.CA.US>
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- I have been deeply involved with ASCII since many of you were in diapers
- (1960). And I suspect I have read at least the earlier standards
- much oftener than most of you have. And the purpose of HT or FF is not
- printer driving (the printers for which ASCII was defined originally
- supported neither of those characters). So let's not confuse the issue.
- Two is not twenty. Anyone who thinks the function of a character set
- is to drive composition devices needs to go back to school and learn
- what a character set is and how to drive a composition device. And G*d
- help us all if we are forced to use a character set designed with that
- little knowledge and intelligence. Dave
-