Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!kth.se!draken!perand From: perand@nada.kth.se (Per Andersson) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Why does 'stevie' mask the 8th bit ? Message-ID: <3186@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 21 Mar 90 20:27:02 GMT References: <1581@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <3052@auspex.auspex.com> <5909@fmeed1.UUCP> Reply-To: perand@nada.kth.se (Per Andersson) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 18 In article <5909@fmeed1.UUCP> wehr@fmeed1.UUCP (Bruce Wehr) writes: >In article <3052@auspex.auspex.com>, guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes: >> >There are usually good reasons for masking the eighth bit, >> >> No, there aren't. > >Yes, there are. The one point I haven't seen yet is the fact that >*real* vi masks the 8th bit. If you're writing a clone, you do your It can't in sys V rel 4, 'cause it is supposed to have support for eight bit character sets. So there. Per -- --- Per Andersson Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden perand@admin.kth.se, @nada.kth.se