Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!indri!caesar!blake!ndsuvax!ncoverby 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 Lines: 19 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. -- Glen Overbyuunet!ndsuvax!ncoverby (UUCP) ncoverby@ndsuvax (Bitnet)