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In article <635556696.22387@myrias.com>, mj@myrias.com (Michal Jaegermann) writes:
> This is plea for a good advice in the following problem.
>  
> From time to time one has to mail some TeX files over Bitnet.  For a
> benefit of those of you who never did it - Bitnet machines often have
> a nasty habit of using different translation tables for supposedly the
> same EBCDIC character set.  For example, when receiving text files on
> one of Bitnet accounts to which I have an access you are nearly
> assured that left square bracket, right square bracket, tilda and
> carret characters will be mapped into something in non-printable range.
> What's more - both tilda and carret will be mapped onto THE SAME code.
> Other characters likely to be garbled include underscore, all kinds of
> accents and the like.  Similar problems occur also on a mail out.

	On VMS, a command procedure has been written to handle such troubles 
you get into when sending over bitnet.  The procedure is VMS_SHARE.  It 
changes such characters as <tab> into things that bitnet will accept.  It also 
breaks the pieces up into nice neat packages suitable for mailing.  I am sure 
some of you unix guru's out there have something like this or could easily 
write something to handle it.  I could send some of the output from it and 
explain what the different character strings translate to.  Anyone interested?

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