[comp.graphics] solution to the Gems Source Code FTP Server problem

mherman@alias.UUCP (Michael Herman) (08/27/90)

When you get a uuencoded file back from BITFTP, it starts
with a few lines that look something like the following:

> The following line should contain ASCII characters 0x20-0x5F:
>  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]~_

The problem is that the second last character of the last line shown
here is incorrect.  The tilde (~) should be a circumflex (sp?) accent
(^).  If you receive a file that already has a ^, then you don't have
anything to worry about.

If you do have a problem, the solution is to perform a global
substitution on the file replacing all occurances of ~ with ^ 
(before you do the uudecode).

Thanx to everyone who suggested checking this.