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- From: jeremy@vsm.com.au (Jeremy Begg)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
- Subject: RE: Erroneous output from CONFIGURE.COM
- Message-ID: <01GODUPD6YPE0002HW@vsm.com.au>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 05:18:37 GMT
- Organization: The Internet
- Lines: 47
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- Resent-Date: 04 Sep 1992 11:18:37 -0600 (CST)
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- X-Vms-To: IN%"DAN@INNOSOFT.com"
- X-Vms-Cc: IN%"info-pmdf@ymir.claremont.edu"
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- Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
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-
- >There is no problem with CONFIGURE, per se, but rather with how you answered
- >the questions. The host name which is associated with the local (l) channel
- >is that given in response to the question "Official local host name". No
- >rewrite rule is generated for this host: it is assumed to have been a host name
- >which was given earlier in the configuration query/response session. Ned just
- >went ahead and added some additional DCL to CONFIGURE.COM to support what you
- >did.
-
- That makes sense, I told it the official local host name was r.s.g.a, not
- SERF.r.s.g.a which was the default response. Although this does mean I
- have mis-understodd how the rewrite rules and the channel blocks interact.
-
- >> But when I tried to send a message to a user on PAPER, the message was
- >> encoded using BASE64 and was not readable:
- >
- >This was a bug in the interaction between linelength and charset7 which was
- >fixed early on in 4.1 but your 4.1-2 tape pre-dates that fix. The mail you
- >sent must have had some long lines (> 255 characters) and PMDF went ahead and
- >wrapped the lines but also encoded them when that wasn't necessary.
-
- Actually, no. I just did this:
- $ MAIL
- MAIL> send
- To: in%"sysprgg@paper"
- Subj: Test mail to paper
- Enter your message below. Press CTRL/Z when complete, or CTRL/C to quit:
- This is a short test message to paper.
- ^Z
- MAIL>
-
- >
- >Fortunately, there is a simple work around: remove the "charset7 us-ascii" from
- >your d and l channels. It's superfluous anyhow since charset7 us-ascii is the
- >default. Removing it will, however, remedy the problem.
-
- Didn't work. I removed the "charset7 us-ascii" without success, and then
- also the "charset8 iso-8859-1" and that didn't help either.
-
- Regards,
-
- Jeremy Begg
-
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