HABKE@UOFMCC.BITNET (01/15/88)
WOULD SOME KIND SOUL PLEASE SEND ME A LIST OF ALL THE ASCII
CHARACTERS IN ASCENDING ORDER SO I CAN FIND WHICH ONES ARE
BEING SWICHED AROUND BY THE BITNET NODES:
I HAVE ALREADY TRIED CHANGING ALL 'c' TO '~' AND FILLING IN
MISSING BLANKS AT THE ENDS OF THE LINES BUT SOMETHING STILL APPEARS
TO BE WRONG; HEX FORMAT SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY WAY TO GET SOMETHING
THROUGH BITNET NODES.
THANKS
BILLG15@PSUVM.BITNET (John F. Gbruoski) (01/16/88)
In article <8801151612.AA18530@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, HABKE@UOFMCC.BITNET says: > > WOULD SOME KIND SOUL PLEASE SEND ME A LIST OF ALL THE ASCII > CHARACTERS IN ASCENDING ORDER SO I CAN FIND WHICH ONES ARE > BEING SWICHED AROUND BY THE BITNET NODES: <.....decoding attempts deleted.> I had this problem once before with a file, and was able to solve it with a little help. Below is a portion of an article which appeared a while back on comp.sys.atari.st: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I experienced problems when uudecoding disasmbl.tos, too. But as I noticed, that the program has been posted by someone on BITNET, I examined the file more closely. And this is, what I've found: 1. Some lines are short of a few bytes. -> Fill those lines with trailing blanks until they line up with all the other lines. 2. There are a lot of tildes ('^' == 0x7e) in the file. Tilde is not a valid character in an uuencoded file. But I happened to remember a posting by someone on the net who found out, that these tildes started out as pointers ('^' == 0x5e). -> Change all tildes (0x7e) to pointers (0x5e). Next: Now uudecode that modified file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In addition to this, sometimes a file contains 'grave markers' in place of spaces (on an 8-bit Atari, they appear as the solid diamond character). To fix this problem, simply replace each grave marker with a single space. I've found that SpeedScript's global find-and-replace feature works well in repairing files plagued with these problems. Hope this helps... ******************************************************************************* * * * PPPP SSSS U U John F. Gbruoski G15 @ PSUVM.BitNet * * PPPP SS U U * * P enn SState U University "Young fool...Only now, at the End, * * P SSSS UUUU do you understand." * * * * Claimer: These opinions are my own, and PSU can't have them! * *******************************************************************************