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