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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
Message-ID: <ks4143w164w@cybrspc>
Date: 24 Jun 91 04:32:19 GMT
References: <1991Jun22.020306.2825@brainiac.mn.org>
Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
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jrc@brainiac.mn.org (Jeffrey Comstock) writes:

> Because almost all computers ( except for CBM and that PETSCII abortion ) are
> guarenteed to use the same characters in the 'ascii character range'.

Watch out for Atari, too... ATASCII uses a 155 for EOL.  (fortunately,
the rest of the alphanumerics are the same)
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