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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ascii or not ascii
Summary: Primos quirk
Keywords: ascii, prime
Message-ID: <2802@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 14:50:27 GMT
References: <533@zoot.lamont.Columbia.edu>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
Lines: 13

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".

I seem to remember that Primos likes the eighth bit set in each
character.  It must be that vi doesn't like this.  Write a filter to
strip these bits, or use Chuck Forsberg's undos/todos utility with the
-s switch.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi