On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:07:25PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Debian wasn't fully 8-bit clean until Hamm, in 1998. (That is, any program that 
>wasn't 8-bit clean was fixed or removed.) 

Certainly not completely true. As an couterexample, take finger/fingerd
programs. They throw out non-ASCII characters. Even when finger is used
locally. At least this was the situation a year ago, when I was playing
with this.


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