Re: [tlug] "interactive" perl

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

Quoth Norman Diamond (Tue 2002-09-03 04:59:29PM +0900):
> "Brett Robson" <brett@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: "Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>
> >
> > > $answer =3D <STDIN>;
> >
> > encoding problem, what is 3D?
> 
> It is an encoding problem.  Someone did a MIME encoding of "quoted
> printable" and someone else didn't do a MIME decoding.  I wonder why that
> happened.

I use Mutt, which is reputed to do MIME pretty damned well. I must
therefore accuse Brett of using a Broken-Ass MUA.[1]

> > (give me a break I started off with EBICDIC,
> > that's +3, '3' with plus overpunch )
> 
> No it isn't.  +3, '3' with overpunch, is 3C.  -3, '3' with overpunch, is 3D.
> 
> My second machine was an IBM 360 with EBCDIC, though I didn't have to use
> COBOL on it then.  I started off on a machine that pre-dated the 360 and
> pre-dated EBCDIC, and couldn't run COBOL though fortunately it didn't
> pre-date COBOL.

You guys rule! :)

--Josh "Damnit, why was my first computer an Apple ][c" Glover

[1] Copyright 2002, Josh Glover


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