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From: roberts@stsci.EDU (Jim Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Author rebuttal on Aled
Message-ID: <2841@nemesis.stsci.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 91 05:17:04 GMT
References: <3471@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <3303@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <2831@nemesis.stsci.edu> <3308@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Reply-To: roberts@stsci.EDU (Jim Roberts)
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218
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In article <3308@krafla.rhi.hi.is> einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes:
>In article <2831@nemesis.stsci.edu> roberts@stsci.EDU (Jim Roberts) writes:
>>present.  Most editors written in the US do take care of the 8th bit,
>
>Most.  But NOT all.  And somehow I manage to stumble accross those that don't

What are you doing, always stumbling across editors?  Can't you find
even one that works to your satisfaction?  I use a text editor for
about 5 years before replacing it with something enough better, or
better supported, and cheap enough to get me to switch.  From 1981-84
I used WordStar, from 84-90 esp (Rand Corp), and now vde.  I use a
couple of special purpose editors for large data files and binary
files.  That's it on PCs.  It's no surprise to me to try an editor
that isn't nearly as convenient as the one I'm already using.  I
presume that others must find the other editors useful, or they
wouldn't be written.  That's enough for me: I don't have to use them.

You never gave any reason for trying to use ALED.  What did it have
that your present editor doesn't?  You sound like you are just on a
hunt for something to bitch about.  If we were all like that there
wouldn't be anything constructive on this group, and it would quickly
disappear. 

>and none registered.)  I then tried the alt-numberic-trick.  That worked.
>                                               ^
>Conclusion:

So you *knew* it didn't mask the 8th bit, as you so loudly, rudely,
and incorrectly proclaimed!  Give us all a break.
-- 
Jim Roberts	roberts@stsci.edu	scivax::roberts