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From: lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
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Subject: Re: Data range used by UUCICO?
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Date: 6 Apr 91 02:56:55 GMT
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det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:

>Huh?  I thought that the f protocol merely assumed an error-free connection
>and said nothing about reducing the number of bit per byte, i.e., it is
>still 8-bit.

Then you thought wrong. f is designed to work through PAD's, which don't
usually have the capability of being fully eight bit transparent. So, the
datga gets translated into a printable ASCII character if it isn't one
already. Read the source ...
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