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From: edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu
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Subject: Re: 8-bit xterm
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Date: 7 Mar 88 18:52:02 GMT
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In article <8803071245.AA14204@unido.uucp> tom@pcsbst.UUCP writes:
>
>Has anyone adapted the xterm terminal emulator to conform to the
>ISO 88 59/1 8-bit character standard?  Is anyone thinking of doing
>this?

If someone is, beware!  I was forced to strip the eighth bit in xterm so that
programs like "script" would work.  For whatever reason, this program does
its own parity, which originally confused the heck out of xterm (and suntools,
for that matter).  

Edward Moy
Workstation Software Support Group
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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