Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: KARSTEN@TFL.DK (Karsten Nyblad, TFL) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: RE: Re: RE: Problems installing V59a Message-ID: <8910180745.AA05370@danpost.uni-c.dk> Date: 18 Oct 89 07:43:00 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: "Karsten Nyblad, TFL" Lines: 24 X-VMS-To: IN%"ANU-NEWS@VM1.NODAK.EDU" Bob Sloane writes: > Geoff Huston writes: >> If this was a BITNET induced problem, then why oh why can't BITNET leave text >> alone?? (asked he already knowing the hopelessness of this plea$) > >Because BITNET is a network based on the IBM RSCS protocol. Everything on >BITNET (at least text stuff) is done in EBCDIC. Somewhere there is a machine >with a different ASCII<->EBCDIC tranlation table than the rest of the world. >I strongly suspect that the problem is at the site it was reported from rather >than a general BITNET problem. Note that the articles made it to the LISTSERV >machine OK via BITNET. Bob you are right. Its is the danish bitnet <-> internet gateway. In danish we have got three extra letters, and the gateway is set up in to convert between Danish EBCDIC and Danish ASCII. I was told so as a reply for my first letter. Sorry. I will retransmit my patch for patch in VMS_SHARE format since it was wrecked by the gateway too. Karsten Nyblad, TFl The Danish Telecommunication Reseach Lab. E-mail: karsten@tfl.dk