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In a letter on  9 Sep 89 20:21:16 GMT
Antony A. Courtney of: 
agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!lbl-csam.arpa!antony@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  
(Antony A. Courtney)
Writes:...
>Don't believe everything you read.  There are any number of sights out
>there on bitnet which have to pass through very old IBM hardware.  This
>old IBM mainframe hardware does NOT use ASCII, but rather an older 
>standard called EBCDIC.   There are, however, plenty of EBCDIC<-->ASCII
>converter programs.  Unfortunately they do not always agree on which
>characters are which.  I have seen this happen enough times to know
>that  uuencoding does not work for absolutely EVERY sight on EVERY 
>network.  Uuencoding just works on enough sights that nobody complains. 
>Especially since nobody wants to have to clean up after IBM.
 
>If you are still stuck or want more information about this, there was a
>solution found by a programmer (and friend of mine) for the Tandy color
>computer which transferred files across just about any network you can
>think of(they use a fileserver on an EBCDIC computer).  If you like,
>I can send you more information on who to talk to about getting a 
>protocol which will work for you.
 
[ excuse the public message all ]
To Antony:
    I would be very interested in such a protocol to send files, we
have narrowed down the problem to a 'brain-dead' gate along the route.
If such a protocol would go through this gateway then the problem
would be solved.  I tried to e-mail you directly but failed, if
possible send me e-mail.                __     ___    __   __  _   __  __ 
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