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So Dave... is this question about a 'this is a stupid idea, do not implement' choice button prompted by my VMS file format suggestion?



[for the innocent bystanders... Dave and VMS go way back]

Cheers,
Hein.

- Yes, I could script an import/export style task, but that wouldn't help the large community. Then again, maybe I am the only one ever having run into this. It is also easily fixed by using an ftp in ascii mode from vms. But this happened to me when I opened an attached file in a forum, so the file ...

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