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Skriven 2006-11-13 07:39:00 av Greg Mayman
     Kommentar till en text av Mark Lewis
Ärende: HIGH ASCII 210
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 -=> Mark Lewis said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "HIGH ASCII 210" on 10-21-06  12:44.....

 GM> So for any translation to be accurate, the translating program
 GM> would have to know what software generated the original text. 

 ML> not quite... all it really needs to know is the character set used...

Yes, I can see that.

 ML> this was one of the driving forces behind the CHRS control line in
 ML> fidonet messages many years back... it works pretty well and if you
 ML> have a reader that can handle them, you see no real difference... TimED
 ML> is one of these readers and i'm sure that there are a few others... no,
 ML> they are not QWK type readers... these would be more suited to point
 ML> systems and for use by sysops to read messages without haivng to go
 ML> into the bbs... this is another indication that QWK and Blue Wave stuff
 ML> isn't truely fidonet compatible ;) 

I used to have a point until that BBS closed. I couldn't
find another board that would do point for me.

Now it's getting hard just to find a BBS. I think there are four
left here in SA, and the board I'm using has only four current
members.
 
From Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia

"I could diet and get slim, but them my friends would be
 jealous and I'm too nice a person to do that to them."
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