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From: jmoody@DCA-EMS.ARPA (Jim Moody, DCA C342)
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Subject: Re: Characters with codes >= 128
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It's not clear that there's a conflict between Martin Moore's solution
to the problem and that of colbert @hermix.UUCP.  Colbert is clearly
correct that formally one should create a new version of text_io.
Martin tells you how to do that on certain targets.  There is little
thought required to turn Martin's solution into a full-blown text_io
package (about three minutes, don't invite A. E. Housman's scorn), and
not more than a couple hours typing.  The point is that that makes all
applications which use (say) Thai_text_io portable in the sense that it
isolates the machine dependencies (does Martin'e trick work) into a
single package.  Which, I thought, was the point.

Jim Moody
DCA/JDSSC