On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, M Gopalakrishnan wrote:
 
> Hi,
>
>   Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> Jon Diercks wrote:
>
> > > Also RAW causes non-printable characters to appear as '.'.
> >
> > Whoops!  When did this sneak in?  I think that filtering of non-printable
> > characters would be a good option to have, but I don't think it should be
> > folded into the ;RAW option.
>
>   I agree with your suggestion of RAW implies 'unprocessed'. Note that
>   this does not apply to page breaks (set ;page=0 to print binary data
>   continuously).
>
>   Having said that, how important is it to have the non-printable character
>   filtering option?. Our SR back log does not show any request on this issue.
>   So, I guess no one felt a real need for this.
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Gopi ([log in to unmask])
>
I agree - If they want dots for unprintable characters let them use
FCOPY, RAW shoud be just that - NO change to the data.  If somebody tries
to PRINT a binary file, shame on them.  The opposite of RAW (default)
should be FMT.
 
NMD