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From: xiaoy@ecf.toronto.edu (XIAO  Yan)
Subject: Re: vi and emacs
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.143707.4464@ecf.utoronto.ca>
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Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
References: <39861@cup.portal.com> <WNX9YN7@xds13.ferranti.com> <40012@cup.portal.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 91 14:37:07 GMT

In article <40012@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
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>handles translating things like 'a' into the appropriate ASCII code
>(or EBCDIC code if that's what the machine uses).
>
>Unless you program like this:
>
>	unsigned char main[] = { 12, 17, 97, 243, 122 };
>
>you rarely need to know ASCII codes.

	Can't you define macros to generate those nice ASCII codes if 
	your personal taste prefers?  Above all, 'a' is not so
	professional as 97 :-).

Xiao