On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 19:23:11 GMT, Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> said: > That's not actually completely true. Badly written software will break. In > particular throwing up chars to the shell might break things, but that's > particularly specific to a platform. Pipes won't break. Copy and Paste may > depending on OS, and 'from where and to where'. Generally, it won't. If it > does, it's because somebody has written some *really* crusty code that can't > handle ASCII outside 0-127. The IETF shouldn't be in the business of making > sure everythign works with badly written code. Hmm.. so you're saying that *ALL* that code out there that double-checked that things that claimed (possibly implicitly) to be USASCII were in fact in the 0-127 range are "crusty" code? Damn. Sendmail 8.12.3.Beta1 is crusty - it actually bothers checking. What's wrong with this picture? -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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