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From: mcdonald@aries.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: curses 8 bits
Message-ID: <1989Nov29.151738.24726@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 29 Nov 89 15:17:38 GMT
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Reply-To: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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>The RISC/os release 4.0 curses library, based on the SVR3.0 version, is
>*not* 8-bit-clean.  The version included in the about-to-enter-alpha-test
>release 4.50 is derived from SVR3.2, and allows full 6-bit character
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>support.  This will be released during the first quarter of 1990.

Should we sell our MIPS and replace it with a 1960's CDC mainframe?

I have always wondered why ANY system would go to all the trouble
of throwing away half of the possible characters in a byte.
Seems stupid.

Doug McDonald