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From: ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Query about ELLE problems
Summary: Bitnet kills trailing spaces
Message-ID: <974@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 88 02:52:39 GMT
References: <1897@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND
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In article <1897@botter.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>Although I have used ELLE very heavily (I just wrote a 650 page book using it),
>and it works absolutely flawlessly on my machine, other people have been
>unable to get it to work it all.  It writes random junk on the screen. 

>Has anyone else encountered problems like this or does anyone have any ideas?

I don't recognise your symptoms, but I have had major problems with uuencoded
binaries which come across Bitnet.  For some reason, the bitnet transfer
mechanisms think it is their duty to remove all trailing blanks from
everything that they touch.  The people who were unable to get elle to work
may be on bitnet.  Somebody posted diffs to the Minix uudecode to compensate
for this "feature" right after 1.2 was posted. 

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Glen Overby
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