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   David Meyer to All   
   Re: Word name storage quirk in VAX fig-F   
   17 Apr 25 08:31:30   
   
   From: papa@sdf.org   
      
   It occurred to me that another factor in this is that the VAX-11 OS used   
   7-bit ASCII as its character set, so perhaps terminals and printers of   
   that time would just print the character indicated by the lower 7 bits   
   of each byte they were sent, ignoring the high bit. So I am seeing   
   munged characters because I'm using equipment that looks at all 8 bits   
   for character codes?   
   --   
   David Meyer   
   Takarazuka, Japan   
   papa@sdf.org   
      
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