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- From: winston@merk.com (Winston Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: My ego VS UUE
- Keywords: EBCDIC, UUENCODE, translation, cent
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.140146.7474@merk.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:01:46 GMT
- References: <1h43rcINNqp@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <72170@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: Technology Partners, Inc.
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- Rick_Michael_Cortese@cup.portal.com,
- on Mon, 21 Dec 92 21:44:55 PST, writes:
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- >> "Hmmmm... It would be a good idea to double check exactly what UUENCODE
- does, but I believe it's based on 64 characters." <<
-
- Transferring a text file from a VAX through an IBM mainframe does
- strange things to some characters such as: Vertical Pipe, Backquote,
- Brace, IBM Cent Sign, and a few others, due to shifting from the ASCII to
- the EBCDIC character sets and then back again. Would your new UUENCODEr be
- able to handle the "special cases", due to "bad network translation"
- through a mailer somewhere in the message delivery path? It's something to
- think about (in any event)....
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