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From: dcw@SUN-BEAR.LCS.MIT.EDU (Dave Whitney)
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Subject: Re: Binscii mess
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Date: 8 Apr 89 19:12:05 GMT
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BinSCII uses the upper and lower case letters, the ten digits, and open
and close parens in its files. Nothing else. I picked those characters so
that they'd be unobtrusive to mailers going to IBM (EBCDIC) machines.

Is the problem people are having related to uploading to the host or
downloading from the host? If they're having trouble uploading, then
it could be that they are using the wrong line terminator option (in
BinSCII). When using Kermit, they should have BinSCII create files
with CR as the line terminator.

Right now, BinSCII 1.0.2 ignores whitespace when decoding files. I
can't figure out why people are having troubles with 'shifted' lines
if they are using v1.0.2.

	Dave