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On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Peter Evans wrote:
>
> Well, in one sense of "binary", any file is binary. And I haven't seen
> much consistency in the use of other senses. NB guillemets themselves
> aren't ASCII.
>

ASCII 174 and 175. They aren't even above 254... But about "binary,"
you're quite correct--it's all a world of ones and zeroes.

> But you (plural) are making a good point: that one can embed more nasties
> within a Word file than within a Xy file.

But a Word file is ALL "nasties"!

Carlo Caballero
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