Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!samsung!munnari.oz.au!bruce!monu0.cc.monash.edu.au!monu6!ron From: ron@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Ron Van Schyndel) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland Message-ID: <1991Jun18.110915.21631@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: 18 Jun 91 11:09:15 GMT References: <3245@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1991Jun15.124052.17827@cbfsb.att.com> <1991Jun15.220717.20911@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Organization: Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Melb., Australia. Lines: 15 In <1991Jun15.220717.20911@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes: >By the way, the seemingly endless stream of 7-bit-only software that >refuses to accept Finnish text as input gives me a poor impression of >the US culture. Or rather, it would, if I didn't know better. Um....ASCII == American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ^^^^^^^^ :-) RON -- Ron van Schyndel ron@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au Physics Department, Monash University ron%monu6.cc.monash.edu.au@uunet.UU.NET CAULFIELD EAST, Victoria, AUSTRALIA {hplabs,mcvax,uunet,ukc}!munnari!monu6.. Location: 37 52 38.8S 145 02 42.0E Phone: +613-573-2567 Fax: +613-573-2358