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From: timr@gssc.UUCP (Tim Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
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Date: 17 Jun 91 18:38:27 GMT
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Organization: Graphic Software Systems, Inc. Beaverton, Or.
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Regarding the Iceland flame debate:

I am NOT an Icelander, but I also tend to discard in disgust any editor which
trims off the 8th bit of ASCII characters.  I call this "WordStar syndrome".
I find myself upon occasion trying to do text-edit-like operations on binary
files.  Editors which take it upon themselves to eliminate 12% of the data in
the file screw this operation in a BIG hurry.  If I WANT to do an 8-to-7 bit
trim, I'll write a 3 line C program to do it.

Lesson To Be Learned:  
	Text editor writers should keep all 8 bits of all characters.
-- 
timr@gssc.gss.com	Tim N Roberts, CCP	Graphic Software Systems
						Beaverton, OR

This is a very long palindrome. .emordnilap gnol yrev a si sihT