Re: It's not a bug, It's a feature

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From: rw... Richard Wexelblat
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 12:46

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In article <10...@venera.isi.edu> rave...@isi.edu (Paul Raveling) writes:
>	This was a feature, not a bug.  The character was '+',
>	a standard ASI carriage control character asking for an
>	overprint.  (ASI = ANSI before name change.)

Actually ASA, American Standards Association.
ANSI before two name changes: ASA->USASI->ANSI

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--Dick Wexelblat  (rw...@ida.org) 703 824 5511
  Hack mir nisht kein chaynik.

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From: rw...@IDA.ORG (Richard Wexelblat)
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Subject: Re: It's not a bug, It's a feature
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Date: 15 Dec 89 12:46:06 GMT
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