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From: jdc@naucse.UUCP (John Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: What to do with squre brackets?
Message-ID: <1894@naucse.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 90 17:05:28 GMT
References: <985.25e29ee6@dayton.saic.com>
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
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From article <985.25e29ee6@dayton.saic.com>, by fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake):
> 	On VMS, a command procedure has been written to handle such troubles 
> you get into when sending over bitnet.  The procedure is VMS_SHARE.  It 
> changes such characters as <tab> into things that bitnet will accept.  
...
> I am sure 
> some of you unix guru's out there have something like this or could easily 
> write something to handle it.  

Nah, I already asked locally and no one cared.  Seems the accepted practice
is to just use uuencode (which will do the job for unix machine by the way).
Most of the shar programs only have to worry about internet or uucp mail
and no one cares that unix bitnet mail is mostly trash by the time it
crosses over to another machine.  (Try sending diffs over bitnet where
each tab character is counted as 8 bytes and then we wrap at 80...)

Seems a shame to me.  I seldom expect a VMS program to be superior to
a unix program, but VMS_SHARE, in my opinion, seems better than any of
the 4 or 5 unix shar programs I've looked at. 
-- 
	John Campbell               ...!arizona!naucse!jdc
                                    CAMPBELL@NAUVAX.bitnet
	unix?  Sure send me a dozen, all different colors.