goldstein@delni.dec.com.UUCP (04/02/87)
Once again it seems useful to remind new netters...
When you receive UUencoded files which may have passed through a bitnet
server, it pays to check for the presence of any tilde (~) characters
in them. If they exist, then the posting must be edited by replacing
all tildes with carets (^). [I wonder how this note looks to a bitnet
user!]
Since bitnet hosts are often I*M with that dreaded EBCDIC code, some
obscure ASCII characters get munged. Tilde becomes carat, for one.
I took the original HDSCAN (a week or so ago) and tried to decode it,
and got a really weird archive. Then I remembered the bitnet problem,
and made the switch. Now I have a perfect copy of the archive.
The reposted version that arrived today had the same problem. Tildes
in place of carats. I guess we'll just have to abolish I*M! ;-)
fred