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This option is used primarily for debugging. FWEB works internally with the ASCII character set. If FWEB is run on a non-ASCII machine (notably IBM mainframes), translations to and from the internal ASCII are done automatically; on an ASCII machine, these translations are unnecessary and are not performed unless the ‘-A’ option is used.