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January 1996, Week 2

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Bruce Toback <[log in to unmask]>
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Bruce Toback <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 11 Jan 1996 08:46:32 -0700
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Gopi ([log in to unmask]) writes:
>  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.
 
That's probably because there's another mechanism for doing this:
FCOPY...;CHAR. It would be nice if PRINT did this so that if a user
accidentally PRINTs, say, the object program instead of the source code the
terminal doesn't end up in upside-down blinking-bell mode with the keyboard
locked. On the other hand, the functionality exists elsewhere so it might
be better not to overload PRINT with it.
 
-- Bruce

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