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From: David Stow <[e-mail]>
Subject: character translation after transfer?
Date: 6 May 1999 23:21:35 GMT
Organization: Vancouver CommunityNet
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Is it possible to use MSKermit as a filter to translate from one
character set to another after the transfer has finished?  I received a
French text file that was written in Latin-1 from a computer that didn't
give me command-line access to it's Kermit program.  I couldn't force
the sending computer to set the file type to text, so I have a binary
file that only has the proper characters when I read it with Kermit's
replay command.  (I'm using a monochrome adapter that won't let me
change the DOS code page).
Can I use Kermit to rewrite the file so that DOS commands like "more"
and "edit" will show the correct accented characters?

Thanks,
David Stow