Re: The lost key

Stefan Claas <fgrsna.pynnf@vagrearg.eh> wrote:

I do not have any client problems at all, because as a Usenet reader I
use flnews, which is stricly RFC conform.

 
Ok, so your client works properly.
 

The problem occurs when trying to decode small SCOS messages in bash
via echo.

 
Now I have to ask, why would you use echo in bash to decode?
 
If your scos decoder reads from standard input (which it must if you
use echo to feed it a SCOS message), then just run it in a terminal, it
will wait for input from standard input (which is now the terminal, and
no 'character changes' will occur, that is unless you've reconfigured
your terminal quite a lot from its standard settings).
 
Then paste in the SCOS message into the waiting standard input in the
terminal, and hit ctrl+d (end of file) to signal the end of file.
 
Your scos decoder will then receive your pasted data, unaltered, do the
decode, and print its output.