Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????.
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.131653.23240@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jul13.022224.25441@lth.se> <3119.269d97ea@mccall.com> <777@hades.ausonics.oz.au> <15688@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <+7Y$AV&@rpi.edu> <1990Jul21.091529.29557@lth.se> <1857@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <632@texas.dk>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 90 13:16:53 GMT

In article <632@texas.dk> storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>And will our "space-backspace" escape pass through Cnews, NNTP and
>other inews/relaynews/whatever implementations (without modification)?

I can't answer for NNTP et al, but it should be fine with C News, even inews.
Our inews strips out a lot of control characters, but it leaves backspace
alone.
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