Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!water!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: uudecode problems / sending across BITNET
Message-ID: <2181@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 89 01:15:23 GMT
References: <22.MAR.1989.14:48:15.FX@UK.AC.DARESBURY.NNGA>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <22.MAR.1989.14:48:15.FX@UK.AC.DARESBURY.NNGA> FX@nnga.daresbury.ac.UK (Dave Love) writes:
>The problems with uudecode look as though they may have originated
>through transfer of files across BITNET.  It is a well-known problem
>(although I don't know if it's universal) that the characters ^~{} at
>least get mangled going through a bitnet route, ...
> ...
> ...  If anyone out there has the clout to persuade the bitnet
>authorities to sort this out, please do so.  It plays havoc with
>resaerchers trying to exchange TeX and PostScript if nothing else.

Dr. Love is right.  A decreasing number of BITNET gateways still have
this problem.  I think that UKACRL, the official BITNET (a.k.a. EARN)
gateway to the UK, is one of them.  I imagine that a few well chosen
words in the right ear would get the translate table problem solved
at your end.  That site has been an agravation to me for some time now,
but what influence do I, an outsider, have?

-- 
    L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
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