Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!isgate!krafla!einari From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland Message-ID: <3290@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Date: 23 Jun 91 11:09:42 GMT References: <3257@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <3271@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <1991Jun22.020306.2825@brainiac.mn.org> Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) Organization: University of Iceland (RHI) Lines: 14 In article <1991Jun22.020306.2825@brainiac.mn.org> jrc@brainiac.mn.org (Jeffrey Comstock) writes: >used all those 'pretty', non-ascii characters to box in certain phrases, and >the document was very hard to read. If you start using non-ascii characters, >you might as well forget about viewing a document on a different architecture >machine. At least high bit-stripping software makes documents 'portable'. Yes. And high bit-stripping software makes documents USELESS here in Iceland! (and in the rest of Europe :-) -- Internet: einari@rhi.hi.is | "Just give me my command line and drag UUCP: ..!mcsun!isgate!rhi!einari | the GUIs to the waste basket!!!!" Surgeon Generals warning: Masking the 8th bit can seriously damage your brain!!