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From: pinard@odyssee.UUCP (Francois Pinard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: US PC programmers still live in a 7-bit world!
Summary: 8-bits are for US binaries
Message-ID: <1288@odyssee.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jul 88 16:27:45 GMT
References: <1988Jun22.223158.1366@LTH.Se> <699@omen.UUCP>
Organization: Odyssee (ORA) inc., Montreal, Canada
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In article <699@omen.UUCP>, caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:
> In article <1988Jun22.223158.1366@LTH.Se> torsten@DNA.LTH.Se (Torsten Olsson) writes:
> :US PC programmers still live in a 7-bit world!
> :Yes, there  i s  intelligent life outside the USA.
> The major US PSVANS (Telenet, Tymnet, CIS, etc.) all support 8 bits!

We sometimes have the feeling that 8-bit support is mainly for binaries.

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