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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????.
Message-ID: <1990Aug5.225658.12741@pegasus.com>
Date: 5 Aug 90 22:56:58 GMT
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In article <N8N&T+D@b-tech.uucp> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>It looks like the latest trn (threaded rn) will suport the display of 
>eighth bit set characters.  With it and cnews*, one can already run a 
>local or controlled distribution group with a 8 bit character set (eg,
>iso8859/1).  
>

Yes, but trn is total vaporware.


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com