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From: goldstein@delni.dec.com.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: hdscan and other bitnet postings
Message-ID: <9016@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 09:39:05 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  2 09:39:05 1987
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Once again it seems useful to remind new netters...

When you receive UUencoded files which may have passed through a bitnet
server, it pays to check for the presence of any tilde (~) characters
in them.  If they exist, then the posting must be edited by replacing
all tildes with carets (^).  [I wonder how this note looks to a bitnet
user!]

Since bitnet hosts are often I*M with that dreaded EBCDIC code, some
obscure ASCII characters get munged.  Tilde becomes carat, for one.
I took the original HDSCAN (a week or so ago) and tried to decode it,
and got a really weird archive.  Then I remembered the bitnet problem,
and made the switch.  Now I have a perfect copy of the archive.

The reposted version that arrived today had the same problem.  Tildes
in place of carats.  I guess we'll just have to abolish I*M!  ;-)
       fred