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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
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Subject: Re: diff 8-bit behaviour
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Date: 7 Sep 90 08:11:54 GMT
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In article <1990Sep6.220013.25777@sobeco.com> lamy@sobeco.com (j.lamy) writes:
>I appreciate very much the effort towards 8-bit cleanliness on the sys V side,
>and the fact that the 4.50 BSD environment has shown itself to be quite
>complete so far.  I just hope worthwhile pieces of the BSD stuff get cleaned
>up too and not simply written off as hopeless junk, or that (SVR4 helping)
>the functionality migrates into the mainstream versions.

I will certainly log this as a general enhancement request.

The reason that the 8-bit cleanup was performed on the SysV side and not on
the BSD side was not a malevolent decision, but a short-term no-brainer: we
upped the porting base on the SysV side to SVR3.2 from SVR3.0, and 3.2 is
8-bit clean.
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