X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,637bed96a2434e5a X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-06-19 03:54:52 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!subnet.sub.net!flatlin!fiction!beansidhe!soeren From: soeren@beansidhe.westfalen.de (Soeren M Soerries) Subject: Re: TALK: xxdecode Message-ID: <1994Jun19.030131.6830@beansidhe.westfalen.de> Organization: in the future, we will all be piglet. Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 03:01:31 GMT References: <9406070356.AA19108@davinci.icad.puc-rio.br> <1994Jun17.133607.6973@news.csuohio.edu> Lines: 25 stingray@csuohio.edu (Gino D. Ranieri) writes: > > So what you are telling me is that XXEncode/XXDecode is pointless for > POSIX type machines, created only for VM/CMS type nets? As for the claim > that 'large' networks pour through IBM Mainframes, I thought the majority > the net was Unix-base? All in all, I don't sdee anything earth shattering > about XX. But here is my question : How can you safely convert a > file converted on an 8-bit system (ie. Unix) to the 7-bit Mainframe? (3081) > StingrayE > ---====*> just encode it with 'uue' :-) Soeren -- Soeren M Soerries eoo. eoooo ,oo. eo oo ,ooo. * eoo. eo oo eoooo Breul 43, d8oob d8oo d8odP dP8dP 8oo. op dP db d8odP d8oo 48143 Muenster, d8ooP' d8ooo dP dP dP 8P booP' dP d8ooP dP dP d8ooo Germany. tlf: voice 0251-51378, data 0251-56822, soeren@beansidhe.ms.sub.org