Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Why does 'stevie' mask the 8th bit ?
Message-ID: <3060@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 21 Mar 90 20:45:27 GMT
References: <1581@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <3052@auspex.auspex.com> <5909@fmeed1.UUCP>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Yes, there are.  The one point I haven't seen yet is the fact that
>*real* vi masks the 8th bit.

Define "*real* vi".  System V Release 3.1's "vi" quite happily deals
with 8-bit character sets (which is why SunOS 4.1 uses it as the basis
for its "vi").