Hi Maurice!   
      
   > Perhaps this might illustrate what I am thinking about with respect to   
   > FTN headers and binary data.  Just looking at one variable, say my   
   > point's point number 9, then this works;   
   > binary_origin_point=$(echo 9 | ascii2binary -t us)   
      
       Hmmm.   I thought Bash could do number conversions itself, and/or using   
   something like bc...   I'll need to take a look...   
      
      
      
   Jame   
      
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