^D's, was (Re: "copy" to Amiga serial port)

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From: Richard Sexton
Date: Wed, 03 May 1989 04:52

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The person I share an office with has used PS only in the
context of doing some simple work with NeWS on a Silly Graphics
Iris. He understands it quite well however and is in love with 
the language, and particularly likes that fact that 1) You write
programs in the thing, not just write commands at it and 2) everything
is ascii.

So when I told him about this ^D discussion we were having, he was 
appalled there there was this piece of *BINARY* in an otherwise
perfectly ascii language.

``Why didn't they make it a 64 character unique string'' He asked.


-- 
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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
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Subject: ^D's, was (Re: "copy" to Amiga serial port)
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Date: 3 May 89 04:52:31 GMT
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