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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: alias on ibm-pc, anyone?
Message-ID: <2716@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 1 Feb 91 11:12:57 GMT
References: <29520@usc> <1991Jan24.185021.11667@cabezon.uucp> <1991Jan29.100900.16693@uwasa.fi> <2701@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1991Jan30.171009.16994@cid.aes.doe.CA>
Reply-To: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <1991Jan30.171009.16994@cid.aes.doe.CA> asphgcm@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Claude Mercier) writes:
>|> I use DOSEDIT all the time, but it has one serious flaw - it is not able to
>|> properly handle characters above 128 on the command line.
>|> 
>Tsk tsk tsk !!!
>
>This, Fridrik, is a DOS flaw.  DOS's command line buffer is 128 bytes long.
>Therefore, it is useless to feed it with a command longer than 128
>characters.

I said "characters above 128" (well, above 127 would have been more accurate)
that is characters vith values 128,129,...255 - all the accented and graphic
characters in the character set.

DOSEDIT is yet another American program, whose author ignores the fact that
the rest of the world uses 8-bit characters.

Any program which does not properly handle the upper half of the character
set is pretty useless.

-frisk

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