Messages in this thread | | | From | Frank Peter Rival USG <> | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:08:43 -0500 | Subject | Re: Regarding bash and 8th bit |
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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> So Jeff, are you telling me that the 4CPU Alpha with a few hundred GB of disks hanging off of it sitting next to me is a PC? Sheesh...they do make them big these days, don't they? C'mon, take a breath - you told us all that you get a little too excited sometimes, and methinks this is one of them. Although I do agree it's annoying to get stuck on something as (relatively) stupid as this... <p> - Pete <p>"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Ben, <p>Thanks for the info, but why on earth does someone even have to do this <br>to get the damn to work right when it should do it in the first place. <br>I don't even think anyone makes a seven bit terminal anymore, and even <br>if they do, who cares, we should suppport PC STANDARDS since Linux is a <br>PC OPERATING SYSTEM ..... Let the 7 bit terminals display **SHIT** <br>output and put the right thing on the Linux "PC OPERATING SYSTEM" based <br>display instead of limitng the whole planet to 7 bits just because Unix <br>had the misfortune long ago of supporting 7 bit terminals? <br>Geeezzzzz....... <p>Jeff <br> <br><a href="http://www.tux.org/lkml/"></a> </blockquote> </html>
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