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    1 year ago

    Sure, sure, but is finger 8-bit-safe?

    'Cause if you have to uuencode it, that’s a whole mess.

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      Sure, sure, but is finger 8-bit-safe?

      Originally, I believe it was. (Edit: Confirmed by RFC 742.)

      FTP, on the other hand, used 7-bit ASCII mode by default; Using 8-bit mode would normally require multiple request-response round trips. (There were eventually servers that defaulted to 8-bit, but they were atypical and arrived later.)