Spew - The headline generator

[Marc T. Kaufman]

In article <104290004 at hpcvlx.HP.COM> bturner at hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner) writes:
>Could you do something to correct the problem that all the verticle bars are
>missing from the text?  Caused me a hell of a time trying to get the headline
>file corrected...

Loss of vertical lines is an indication that the file went through an IBM
mainframe host somewhere.  The | is missing in the EBCDIC character set
(having been replaced by ']').  A solution to this problem has been known
since the mid 1960's, but since no big COBOL user has complained, IBM has
never fixed it.