On Mon, 12 Feb 1996 19:28:18 -0400 Geoff Harper wrote:
 
> In <[log in to unmask]> >[log in to unmask] writes:
 
>>
>>     Found this under "man strings" on 5.0:
>>     >      -p   only examines the bottom seven bytes of
> >    each character.
>>
>>     Let's see, if Unicode uses two-byte characters, and
>>     the above implies at
>>    least eight-byte characters, does POSIX use Septicod
>>     e? ;)
>>
>Yes - it's known as the "Septic System"  ;)
 
                                                -G
 
And the eigth byte is for overflow!
 
How often does it flush its buffer?
 
Ken Nutsford.