[Info-vax] OpenVMS Modernization Development Tools on YouTube (eCube)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2014-09-18 23:42:25 +0000, Craig A. Berry said:

> On 9/18/14, 5:44 PM, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> 
>> An application based on a protocol that cares whether it has an 8bit 
>> clean network link underneath is not a sensible modern application, OSI 
>> or otherwise. Such an application is almost certainly a relic from the 
>> teletype era.
> 
> Such as, for instance, the "send-from-file utility" 
> SYS$SYSTEM:TCPIP$SMTP_SFF.EXE? At least, I tried getting some UTF-8 
> through it and didn't get what I expected.

I'd wager that was an issue within SFF, or possibly with VMS SMTP.  VMS 
MIME has had a few encoding issues over the years too, had you gone 
that way and not SFF.

VMS itself never really grokked UTF-8, which means there are quite 
probably a few gremlins lurking, beyond the generic problems with the 
UTF-8 displays.


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