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- From: xmas@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Mark A. Stevens)
- Subject: Re: Fixes via Direct Info
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.134901.23127@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
- Organization: Educational Computing Network
- References: <L-VMCTR%92082523083091@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:49:01 GMT
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- In article <L-VMCTR%92082523083091@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> ucnick@SOCRATES.UMD.EDU (Nick Gavrielatos) writes:
- >One more thing: Watch out when you download fixes from the
- >BBS, because the NOT sign in rexx(^) as well as the OR
- >character(|) dont get downloaded correctly, but instead
- >get translated to some other irrelevant hex character,
- >which of course if pass undetected can cause problems
- >later on.
-
- You can fix the | at least with the following:
-
- XEDIT fileid
- SET HEX ON
- CHANGE /X'6A'/X'4F'/* *
- FILE
-
- I know, I've been there ;->
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