> > but rather that using text streams makes > > A|B possible for any A and any B and any input. > What is this "text" of which you speak ? ASCII EBCDIC UTF-16 UTF-8 > ISO8859 etc. etc. etc.
there's got to be a latin term parallel to reducto ad absurdum that means the opposite. make the problem gratituiously harder until no sensible statements can be made at all. or maybe it's the opposite of divide and conquer. accrete and be subjugated? ☺. by the way, tcs works fine for me. - erik
