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Binhex4, Kermit, & IBM 3091

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From: Norman Graham
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1989 16:42
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I have a friend who is co-authoring a paper with someone in a
different city. The same friend wants to exchange Microsoft Word
drafts with his colleague via Bitnet... but he's having problems.
This is what he does:
   1) Binhex Word file (using Binhex4) producing sample.hqx
   2) Kermit sample.hqx to IBM 3091 (text mode transfer)
   3) Kermit sample.hqx back to Mac (again, text mode transfer)

At this point, sample.hqx is corrupted. My best guess is either
Binhex4 uses characters that IBM-Kermit can't convert to EBCDIC
or IBM-Kermit is using a file type that somehow adds something 
to sample.hqx. (By the way, the same sequence of steps works
fine on other machines (VMS and Unix boxes).) 

If you have an idea what's going on here, please send email to
me and I'll pass it on to my friend.

Cheers,
Norm
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Norman Graham                            Oklahoma State University
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From: norman@a.cs.okstate.edu (Norman Graham)
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Subject: Binhex4, Kermit, & IBM 3091
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Date: 15 Sep 89 16:42:16 GMT
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