X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,749a54616e5b2217 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: tribe@io.com (WarDancer) Subject: Re: Apology to people who don't like my post. Date: 1996/08/16 Message-ID: <32142c90.59480017@news.paston.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 174548127 references: <4ujhsp$fqj@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> <3212144F.61CC@midwest.net> organization: Tribe reply-to: tribe@io.com newsgroups: alt.ascii-art mvcorks@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Matt Corks) wrote: >No, it doesn't. It never has. There are 2^7 = 128 ASCII characters, not >2^8 = 256. Your "=DF" is a MIME thing, since you posted with Netscape, >and those of us who use VT 100 compatible terminals see garbage. Haven't >you ever looked at an ASCII table? Something extra to consider is that the TCP/IP protocol is 7-bit. If an 8-Bit file is posted it will be received garbled anyway. Without the functionality of some form of encoding (such as MIME encoding) it is not possible for an 8-bit file to be carried over TCP/IP. Programs such as Netscape/Agent/IE will do this transparently to the user but not all people have such luxuries available to them. Having only just started taking this newsgroup I'm not sure of the etiquette and could not find the FAQ, but from reading postings it does seem that the originator of this thread should take some time to learn a bit more about the medium he's using. +--------------------------------------------------+ | Free the Land, Free your Spirit, Free Yourselves.| | Free Nomadic People. | +--------------------------------------------------+ | WarDancer - tribe@io.com | | http://www.jcp.co.uk/Tribe/index.html | +--------------------------------------------------+