U0A61@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU ("Bryan, Jerry") (09/10/89)
>WE are a VM BITEARN node. I am trying to get stuff from the archive- >server at Clarkson (thanks). All the mail on this list about it tells you >to send mail to (on this VM) ;archive-serv....... and to include the >line ;path...... What is this ; at the start of each line. It is HEX 05 >on this system. [May not be a semi-colon to you!!] >Presumably I 'can' get the server to send mail to me as a VM BITNET site? It is an unexpanded tab character from a UNIX or VAX VMS system (or some such system) that routinely uses and automatically compresses and/or expands tabs. In an XEDIT environment on VM (and RICE mail, for example, is an XEDIT environment, as is RDRLIST PEEK), you can issue TOP and EXPAND * to expand the tabs to blanks. It may or may not be a perfect expansion. To get a perfect expansion, you will have to issue the XEDIT SET TAB command to set the tabs the same way they were set on the system that sent the message, prior to issuing the EXPAND * command.