Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!isgate!krafla!einari
From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: International Stevie, and PD software
Message-ID: <1598@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 26 Mar 90 21:07:26 GMT
References: <337@isgtec.UUCP> <4565@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <4565@pegasus.ATT.COM> dmt@pegasus.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman) writes:
>1. STEVIE AND THE EIGHTH BIT
>I'm the person who "did" Stevie 3.69a (made the enhancements, and posted
>the source).  I responded the the person who started the thread about
>"Why does Stevie mask the eighth bit?" by Email, we exchanged a few
[stuff deleted]

Thanks Dave.

I am the one that started it all.  I must apologize for any
misunderstanding that might have occured.  I posted the original 'why
does stevie mask the 8th bit?'.  In that posting I was trying to raise
some discussion about software in general.  (I'm sorry if I was
misunderstood.  Stevie is great and the changes to make it 8bit aware
were trivial.  Now I might try to learn 'vi' ? :-)

No, the real motive for the posting, was the 8bit question in general. 
It is surprising how many software from the U.S.  is only aware of 7bit
ASCII.  

Even DBase, (at least db III), isn't fully operational. 
Whenever a DBase program contains ASCII character 141, DBase consider it
self at the end of file.  When you consider that, on the IBM and clones,
character 141 is 'Thorn', a special icelandic character, then you might
understand my feelings when suddenly the 'great DBase' program just
stop working when it reaches 'Thorn'.  :-(

In the future, please don't mask the 8th bit.  Or at least make it
configurable whether the user uses the full 8th bit or is happy with the
7 bit ascii.

Stevie looks great.  Now all I have to do is to learn 'vi'  :-)


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