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"Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com> writes:

> if they do, who cares, we should suppport PC STANDARDS since Linux is a
> PC OPERATING SYSTEM ..... Let the 7 bit terminals display **SHIT**

Really? An UltraSparc is a PC?

Hmm.

> output and put the right thing on the Linux "PC OPERATING SYSTEM" based
> display instead of limitng the whole planet to 7 bits just because Unix
> had the misfortune long ago of supporting 7 bit terminals?

bash compiles on numerous systems other than Linux, from DG/UX to AIX to
Cray to WinNT (with Mumit Khan's cygwin system).

readline is even more portable.

It would be a very bad idea to assume that GNU == Linux == PC when
changing GNU utilities; GNU stuff works on a superset of Linux runs on a
superset of PC.

obArgh: The idiots at work are dumping Netware for NT. This despite NT
not doing many things we rely on Netware doing (quotas foremost). Why?
Marketing :(

--
`You want every Linux user to have a slower more buggy system so a few
people can use your product, how considerate you are.' --- Alan Cox

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