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From: mherman@alias.UUCP (Michael Herman)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: solution to the Gems Source Code FTP Server problem
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.014412.22754@alias.uucp>
Date: 27 Aug 90 01:44:12 GMT
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Organization: Alias Research Inc., Toronto ON Canada
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When you get a uuencoded file back from BITFTP, it starts
with a few lines that look something like the following:

> The following line should contain ASCII characters 0x20-0x5F:
>  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]~_

The problem is that the second last character of the last line shown
here is incorrect.  The tilde (~) should be a circumflex (sp?) accent
(^).  If you receive a file that already has a ^, then you don't have
anything to worry about.

If you do have a problem, the solution is to perform a global
substitution on the file replacing all occurances of ~ with ^ 
(before you do the uudecode).

Thanx to everyone who suggested checking this.