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From: ncoverby@plains.NoDak.edu (Glen Overby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: listserv punch format
Message-ID: <1989Aug11.163307.26270@plains.NoDak.edu>
Date: 11 Aug 89 16:33:07 GMT
References: <21008@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <21008@louie.udel.EDU> HIGGS_M%P1.LANCSP.AC.UK@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Mike Higgs) writes:
>Has anybody got a working version of the LPUNCH.C program 

> I keep getting "input contains records of more
>than 80 chars".

I tested that program quite some time ago with no problems.  Listserv-Punch
was designed to transport files with lines longer than 80 characters over
Bitnet (Bitnet was designed around IBM's VM/CMS, whose networking facilities
use a "virtual" card reader and card punch, thus limiting them to 80
characters per line), and still be able to pass thru gateways without
problems.

My only guess about your problem is that a gateway expanded TABs, pushing
lines over 80 columns and making them undecodable by an unmodified LPUN.
Try using a different gateway, if possible.
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		Glen Overby	
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