[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

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Thu Aug 5 16:36:33 EDT 2010


In article <i3f3g5$358$3 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
>> Yes, and was considered. But backslash would not reliably pass through
>> EBCDIC gateways, which (believe it or not) was a major headache at the
>> time. The author of the quoted-printable spec wrote that the following
>> characters could not be counted on to get through: !"#$@[\]^`{|}~
>
>Actually, this was a vision of what VAXman yells when he sees gratuitous 
>QP.  :-)

LOL

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