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From: Philip Webb
Subject: lynx-dev EBCDIC events
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 00:30:31 -0500 (EST)

990222 pg wrote: 
> 990222 Philip Webb said:
>> it knows the system is UNIX, so why would it assume EBCDIC a/a ASCII ???
> Because at least one (and perhaps another) significant,
> legally branded, certified POSIX conformant by the Open Group (IIRC) etc,
> UNIX system uses EBCDIC a/a ASCII.
 
golligee: i thought everyone used ASCII except a few old IBM mainframes,
whose OS390 now benefitted from your port of Lynx:
after all, that was why Lynx started to recognise EBCDIC.
so what should configure be looking for?

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