Re: Portability of ASCII across Unixes (was Re: How do I get .login to pause ?)

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From: Christopher Davis
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 03:09

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HC> == Howard Cohen <hsc@sybase.com> 

 HC> Any *Unix* machine, yes.  So name one that doesn't support ASCII.

I bet something running AIX/370 is still thinking in EBCDIC.

Of course, whether or not you define that as a Unix machine... ;)
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From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: Portability of ASCII across Unixes (was Re: How do I get .login to pause ?)
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