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- From: hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: IBM-tip
- Date: 11 Nov 92 15:14:59
- Organization: Computing and Telecommunications Services, UCSC
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- Message-ID: <HERMIT.92Nov11151459@am.ucsc.edu>
- References: <1doi2eINNgu3@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov11.144957.8631@iscsvax.uni.edu>
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- In-reply-to: gobeski8618@iscsvax.uni.edu's message of 11 Nov 92 14:49:57 -0600
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- In article <1992Nov11.144957.8631@iscsvax.uni.edu>, gobeski8618@iscsvax.uni.edu (Steve 'Gobes' Gobeski) writes:
- ) In article <1doi2eINNgu3@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu>, gene@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Gene Gardner) writes:
-
- )> I just purchased BIG-BLUE-READER($35) which came with a 5 1/4" disk
- )> for use on a 1571. It is supposed to accept SPEEDSCRIPT files
- )> directly, which it does but I was dismayed to find that it did not
- )> provide word-wrap and split words apart at the end of 80
- )> columns....hardly a useful program.
-
- ) Not BBR's fault, the word-wrap is a feature of the program's screen-display
- ) routines, and has nothing to do with the file. All "accepting SS directly"
- ) means is that the program does screen code <-> EBCDIC as well as PETSCII <->
- ) EBCDIC.
-
- EBCDIC?!! Sorry, no cigar, try again. MS-DOS machines use ASCII,
- plus graphics characters in the 128-255 range. Only IBM's "big iron"
- machines use EBCDIC.
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