ascii or not ascii

[Rahul Dhesi]

In article <533 at zoot.lamont.Columbia.edu> hough at lamont.Columbia.edu (sue
hough) writes:
>I am trying to read an ascii (Prime generated) 9-track tape on a Unix
> system.  The restored files look like ascii when I use MORE, CAT,
> HEAD, etc.  But when I try to edit them with vi, I get
> "not an ascii file".

I seem to remember that Primos likes the eighth bit set in each
character.  It must be that vi doesn't like this.  Write a filter to
strip these bits, or use Chuck Forsberg's undos/todos utility with the
-s switch.
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