Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bcm!rice!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!helps!jhoward From: jhoward@helps.cactus.org (James Howard) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: VDE and other useless 7 bit JUNK Summary: I disagree Message-ID: <464@helps.cactus.org> Date: 26 Jul 89 03:57:14 GMT References: <1064@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Reply-To: jhoward@helps.cactus.org (James Howard) Followup-To: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Organization: Howard Electronic Laboratories Products & Services, Austin, TX Lines: 22 In article <1064@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes: >Warning - flame on. >... >I soon found out that the program was COMPLETELY USELESS, not only to me, but >also to most other Europeans. The reason is that it does not allow the usage >of eight bit characters. >... >and preferably not post JUNK like this at all! I am sure the author of vde and the moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc are sorry that vde is not useful to you. The program is useful to me. WordStar compatibility is more important to me than is direct support for non-English characters. By using a modern printer with user definable character sets you should still find vde quite usable even in a non-English language. Thanks again for vde. --- James Howard Howard Electronic Laboratories Products & Services AA5R jhoward@helps.cactus.org or cs.utexas.edu!helps!jhoward