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by santix 2819 days ago
I like how you could send your resume as a text file but it better be ASCII.
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DonHopkins 2819 days ago
And please don't email code samples through BITNET because each IBM SYSOP has their own different home brew set of EBCDIC<=>ASCII translation tables. (That's why C has trigraphs!)
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berbec 2819 days ago
EBCDIC-ists!
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