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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????.
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Date: 24 Jul 90 05:34:07 GMT
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In article <7647@gollum.twg.com> david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:
>BITNET won't be able to handle any 8-bit file format very easily.
>More than just bitnet, but also things like VMS will have problems.

Say what?  VAX/VMS got 8-bit-ized way back when the VT2xx
terminals came out--I think that was around V4.0.

A better question is whether ANU NEWS does The Right Thing.
Geoff?

					-=EPS=-