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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: possible sc0 problem
To: sos@sos.freebsd.dk (Søren Schmidt)
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> > > He's the one that wanted the left ALT key to behave like META, ie it 
> > > prepends an ESC to the key pressed (for EMACS fanatics)....
> > 
> > It does?  I thought it just set the 8th bit. :)
> 
> Nope, that would make it useless in the real world, remember you
> live in a 7bit disabled world, the rest of us don't :) 

The VT220 manual shows 7 bit National Replacement Character Sets for
Western European countries, including Germany.  8-) 8-).

I remember running Emacs in LISP on TOPS-10.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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