an administrator, login, go to "Admin Menu", "Server", and you will see a field where you can enter an explicit charset for messages sent by FIT. (Override Charset) Download invoker. It's a free, distributable command line utility for creating registered services, created by Idetix (www.idetix.com). Steps: Unzip invoker.zip to your C:\winnt\system32 directory. It consists of three files: invoker.exe, invoker_readme.txt, and invoker_license.txt. There are problems with invoker and Windows 2000.

Change the value that follows it (UTF-8) to your desired character set. For example: AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 would read: AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1

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According to Garland (posting on the larch-interest mailing list, July 14, 1995), the erase (or rubout) character used by LP cannot be changed easily. The reason is that "LP is written in CLU, and LP's line editing features are provided by the CLU runtime environment. This environment hard-wires the delete key [DEL] as the rubout character." You can erase the current line in LP by typing a C-u (control-U). You can redisplay the current line by typing C-r.

The obvious way is to write a function to do the conversion. (Error checking has been omitted for brevity.

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