Re: [MacPerl] Reading PC files

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

At 09:07 -0700 7/23/98, Bart Lateur wrote:
>p.s. There are other differences between Mac files and PC files, too:
>the "accented characters" (Ascii code above 128) are different. But they
>differ between DOS and Windows, too. In plain English, this difference
>is irrelevant.

Erm.  SOME of the "8-bit" characters turn into reasonable equivalents
when printed with the 8th bit stripped.  OTOH, many do not.  It is NOT
safe to assume, in general, that 01XX will print anything like 03XX ...

-r

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