Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!richard From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: Code Page Conversion Message-ID: <3251@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 21 Aug 90 16:10:37 GMT References: <1991@enea.se> <5681@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1740@hugo.erbe.se> Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 20 In article <1740@hugo.erbe.se> prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) writes: >> I find that I can send 8-bit mail messages over the UK JANET network >> to and from VAX/VMS machines without trouble. However, it seems that if >> mail goes anywhere near a Unix machine it gets the eighth bit stripped. >> The trouble seems to be the file transfer utility hhcp. > >I assume that with "hhcp" you mean "uucp". No, he means hhcp. Hhcp is a program implementing NIFTP ("network-independent file transfer protocol"). Unfortunately, it doesn't implement it well enough for 8-bit transfers to work. The problem does not exist with the (free) unix-niftp software, and possibly not with more recent versions of hhcp. -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed AI Applications Institute, ARPA: R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin