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From: rce229@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Help with Mac-generated PS files...
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Date: 5 Apr 88 20:49:00 GMT
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Others have answered your main question.  But the "non-ASCII character"
message you got from vi is probably due to the extra garbage (often nulls)
that the XMODEM protocol appends to received files (to round them in 128
byte increments).  They usually don't harm anything.