XX-ratings

[Carl Distefano 70154.3452@xxxxxxxx]

Annie says:
-> XXBUG creates debug scripts. I don't wish to belabor this,
-> so will note one last time that when MS DOS debug is executed
-> on a non-MS system (like mine) it displays a msg stating
-> that debug requires MS DOS to run. I would assume that PC DOS
-> debug similarly shuns non-PC DOS systems (like mine).

Annie, I certainly have no predilection for XXBUG, especially if
it doesn't work universally. I'm a little unclear from your
post, though, as to what exactly *would* work on your system.
What I've been using in my posts is:

UX.EXE UU/XX Encoder/Decoder for OS/2
Version 1; July 1993
Documentation updated January 1995
(C) Copyright Greg Swanson 1993

I had assumed that XX-coding based on the standard code table and
lookup procedure and was not OS-sensitive and would decode
properly across platforms. Now I'm not so sure. Are you able to
read my XXencoded messages? If not, can you (or anyone) suggest
a standard utility that we could all agree on for this list?

This is the sort of issue we should all think through once, land
on a solution (ideally, one that works for everybody), and be
done with it. It's frustrating and unsettling not to be able to
easily "talk XyWrite" with everyone on the list.

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Carl Distefano
70154.3452@xxxxxxxx