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From: JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re:  Problems
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Date: 3 May 88 18:00:06 GMT
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> One of the people here who is on the Amiga list said that Bitnet converts
> squigly brackets "{" and "}" to colons.  I put in some squiggly brackets
> to see if they get converted when this message gets back to me.  Would this
> affect those packed Apple2L files like GS Bouncing Demo?

Yes. You are likely to have problems with any files that are in 6-bit
packing mode instead of the 4-bit packing mode.  This is why several
of us have been requesting that contributors only use the 4-bit mode.

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