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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP
To: ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com (Thomas David Rivers)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 13:53:16 -0700 (MST)
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> > KOI8 is a peculiar locale in that it doesn't follow the 8859-x rules
> > like it should.  Like EBCDIC, it needs to die in the long term.  On
>                         ^^^^^^
> 
>   With IBM pushing so hard on their POSIX complaint (EBCDIC-based)
> OE/MVS system; I don't think (unfortunately) that EBCDIC will die any time
> soon...

That's the unfortunate difference between "needs" and "will".  8-(.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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