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echo: fidonews
to: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
from: BJRN FELTEN
date: 2019-05-28 13:06:00
subject: FidoNews 36:21 [01/07]: G

 MvdV> "Brouhaha"?

 MvdV> As opposed to the two decades of brouhaha that you have raised over two
 MvdV> dots over the letter 'o'?

   Can you verify that? All I've ever said is that I appreciate the effort it
takes to get my name correctly spelled in some countries -- and I highly
respect those that do.

 BF>> Ah well, CP 850 is the primary code page and default OEM code page
 BF>> in many countries,

 MvdV> For DOS.

   In case you didn't know it, Fidonet is and has always been a DOS based
network. All you have to do is look at all the eight bit structures of all our
definitions. Ever since we got 16-bit and then 32 and now 64-bit systems, I've
been fighting with stuff like big vs. little endians and similar, I happen to
know.





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