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Article #100Re: Escape chars etc.
From: Frank Adams
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1985 00:00
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1985 00:00
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In article <125100002@ima.UUCP> johnl@ima.UUCP writes: >Sounds to me like it's a bad idea to have shift sequences with global >effect, which is not too surprising. If we declare that each line has to >be self-describing, with appropriate shift sequences at the beginning if >it is in other than the standard character set, that makes it entirely >possible to make tail, grep, and such work. OK, but I think you still want to be able to put a global override for the entire file at the beginning. A rule that says shift sequences not at the beginning of the file affect the current line only seems like a reasonable compromise. Frank Adams ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka Multimate International 52 Oakland Ave North E. Hartford, CT 06108
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: Escape chars etc. Message-ID: <788@mmintl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 19:00:08 EST Article-I.D.: mmintl.788 Posted: Thu Nov 14 19:00:08 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Nov-85 03:43:32 EST References: <485@harvard.UUCP> <125100002@ima.UUCP> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 14