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From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: Spew - The headline generator
Message-ID: <11239@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 10 Aug 89 15:27:28 GMT
References: <3033@bucsb.UUCP> <104290004@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Sender: Marc T. Kaufman <kaufman@Polya.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <104290004@hpcvlx.HP.COM> bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner) writes:
>Could you do something to correct the problem that all the verticle bars are
>missing from the text?  Caused me a hell of a time trying to get the headline
>file corrected...

Loss of vertical lines is an indication that the file went through an IBM
mainframe host somewhere.  The | is missing in the EBCDIC character set
(having been replaced by ']').  A solution to this problem has been known
since the mid 1960's, but since no big COBOL user has complained, IBM has
never fixed it.