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From: schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ascii or not ascii
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Date: 30 Apr 88 00:37:06 GMT
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Keywords: ascii, prime
Summary: Why we love primos

In article <533@zoot.lamont.Columbia.edu> hough@lamont.Columbia.edu (sue hough) writes:
>I am trying to read an ascii (Prime generated) 9-track tape on a Unix
> system.  The restored files look like ascii when I use MORE, CAT,
> HEAD, etc.  But when I try to edit them with vi, I get
> "not an ascii file".  Any suggestions appreciated.

Prime sets the high bit of all characters.  Vi thinks that characters
with the high bit set are not ascii.  A clash of wills takes place :-)
Use tr to map all the prime-ascii characters to real ascii.

-- Scott Schwartz     schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu    schwartz@psuvaxg.bitnet