Re: Regarding bash and 8th bit

Frank Peter Rival USG (frival@zk3.dec.com)
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:08:43 -0500

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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...

- Pete

"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:

> Ben,
>
> Thanks for the info, but why on earth does someone even have to do this
> to get the damn to work right when it should do it in the first place.
> I don't even think anyone makes a seven bit terminal anymore, and even
> if they do, who cares, we should suppport PC STANDARDS since Linux is a
> PC OPERATING SYSTEM ..... Let the 7 bit terminals display **SHIT**
> 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?
> Geeezzzzz.......
>
> Jeff
>
>

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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...

 - Pete

"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:

Ben,

Thanks for the info, but why on earth does someone even have to do this
to get the damn to work right when it should do it in the first place.
I don't even think anyone makes a seven bit terminal anymore, and even
if they do, who cares, we should suppport PC STANDARDS since Linux is a
PC OPERATING SYSTEM ..... Let the 7 bit terminals display **SHIT**
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?
Geeezzzzz.......

Jeff
 
 

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