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In article <1740@hugo.erbe.se> prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) writes:
>In article <5681@castle.ed.ac.uk>, yfcw14@castle.ed.ac.uk (K P Donnelly) writes:
>
>> I find that I can send 8-bit mail messages over the UK JANET network
>> to and from VAX/VMS machines without trouble.  However, it seems that if
>> mail goes anywhere near a Unix machine it gets the eighth bit stripped.
>> The trouble seems to be the file transfer utility hhcp.
>
>I assume that with "hhcp" you mean "uucp". Uucp doesn't strip anything.
>One can send binary files using uucp (this is how we get our 'news').
>I believe that the problem lies in "sendmail", especially as implemented
>on many UNIX systems running BSD UNIX. Many System V UNIXes that comes
>with sendmail does allow 8 bit characters.

  No, he really does mean hhcp. JANET does not use TCP/IP or uucp, it has
its own ``coloured book'' protocols, one of which is NIFTP (I forget the
colour) for transfering files. This is what hhcp uses.
  hhcp -b8 file remote:file might work, but most Unix utilities that deal
with rs232 lines seem to have 7bit braindamage all the way through them.
  Get hold of a uu{en,de}code that compiles on a VMS system and encode your
mail. ( Horrible isn't it :-( )

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I
have
to
add
this
because
Pnews
complains.
What
idiot
wrote 
this? :-(
-- 
	.Kevin.
  <tkld@castle.ed.ac.uk> || <tkld@lfcs.ed.ac.uk> || <tkld@tardis.cs.ed.ac.uk>
                                         ...and he did not think it too many.