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Re: ASCII

** Reply to note from xywrite@xxxxxxxx Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:02:34 +6700 (EST)
 
> I've tried to stay out of this, but ... I think the confusion
> arises from the fact that the ASCII standards committee
> provided for a 256-char (7-bit) set, but defined only
> the first 128... And anybody who's ever
> programmed in a high-level compiled language knows those
> 256 chars are 7 bit. In C each is an unsigned variable. ...
> OK, guys?

Sure. Fine with me. As my son would say, there are three kinds of people in the
world: those who can count, and those who can't.



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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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