From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!EGLIN-VAX.ARPA!mooremj From: mooremj@EGLIN-VAX.ARPA ("MARTIN J. MOORE") Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Characters with codes >= 128 Message-ID: <8709101356.AA01779@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 08:51:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8709101356.AA01779 Posted: Thu Sep 10 08:51:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 07:42:24 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: "MARTIN J. MOORE" Organization: The ARPA Internet List-Id: > From: colbert > Unfortunately, Martin Moore's solution is NOT portable either. It only works > because: > [list of reasons] He is absolutely correct. My solution is non-portable and, as I pointed out in my original message, erroneous as defined by the LRM. My purpose in posting it was to possibly help the original questioner, since the solution does work on the VAX and may work on other machines. It wasn't intended to be a universal solution. The approach suggested by Colbert et al is obviously the way to go to provide portability. Martin Moore ------