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Subject: Re: Warning! Warning! -- Potentially corrupted news
Message-ID: <1095@PUCC.BITNET>
Date: Fri, 26-Sep-86 11:56:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 26 11:56:35 1986
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In article <4782@ukme.ukma.uky.csnet>, david@ukma.uky.csnet (David Herron, NPR Lover) writes:
 
>Recently psuvm has generated a new (and INTOLERABLE) problem.  Now,
>more than just the tabs and formfeeeds are being translated, now it's
>moved to the curly braces ('{' and '}' assuming nothing between you and
>me has translated them).  This new mucking is changing all these curly
>brace characters to colon's!  This is TERRIBLY ANNOYING for a lot of
>reasons (not to mention that it makes C programs USELESS and hard to
>recover).
 
This may not be the fault of psuvm.  Earlier this week Bill Rubin of
CUNYVM asked us here at PUCC to dump him some news, which eventually got
fed back out to psuvm; I assume that the curly braces translation
is associated with any of the news we sent out.  I've checked here and
the curly braces are stored properly on our machine (EBCDIC x'C0' and
x'D0') and we dumped them to CUNYVM using CMS SENDFILE, which should
preserve such information.  (This was all old news which most machines
should already have seen, and thus discarded.  You can identify it
by looking for the string 'puvax2!PUCC.BITNET' in the Path header.)
 
Irwin Tillman, Netnews Admin, Princeton University Computing Center
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