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: <2189@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 31 Mar 89 23:04:43 GMT
References: <22.MAR.1989.14:48:15.FX@UK.AC.DARESBURY.NNGA> <608@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <608@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
>It's a nice thought, but will probably never happen. BITNET is wedded to
>RSCS and EBCDIC,  ...

I think it will.

Our campus has a BLUE BOX machine connecting to most of the other machines
on campus and to BITNET.  It took some doing, but finally, after twisting
the right (no pun intended) elbow, we got translate tables in place that
do not mess up the 94 graphic characters of the ISO 646 reference set.
(They used to make a royal mess of it.)

>                     Curly brackets, square brackets,
> tilde, Icelandic Thorn (what the heck is an Icelandic Thorn? 

As to the Icelandic Thorn, you might like to know that English
used to have a thorn.  It looks sort of like a Y, and the sound is
something like a "th" as in the word "the".  This is the source of
the abominable "ye" that one sometimes sees in signs with wording
like "Ye olde English candy shop".  Those who know, say "The";
those who do not, say "Yee".

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