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From: benson@odi.UUCP (Benson Margulies)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: More on Cap5 and Banners
Message-ID: <287@odi.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 89 16:01:22 GMT
Reply-To: benson@odi.UUCP (Benson Margulies)
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Organization: Object Design Inc., Burlington, MA
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I've done more analysis.

papof.c expects, for some odd reason, that the data stream will
consist of banner text followed by ^Y^A followed by the actual text of
the file.

However, SunOS4 (and, I presume, 4.3BSD in general), don't send
ANYTHING before the ^Y^A when there are other filters in the house.
So papof always sees ^Y^A first thing out.

Do 4.2 (or non-Sun 4.3) systems really send some banner-like garbage
to the of filter before the ^Y^A? Or is there some columbiaism
involved?

Anybody out there seen anything useful on this front?

-- 
Benson I. Margulies