Hi! mark,   
      
   On Tue, 30 Apr 13, you wrote to me:   
      
    ml>> FWIW: i've also just posted a question in the GOLDED echo to see if   
    ml>> the chs file format has changed since 2005...   
    PQ>> That post hasn't appeared in my version of the echo, yet.   
      
    ml> let me know if it doesn't appear over there ;)   
      
   It still ain't here.  I checked Björn's server as well but his message browse   
   list ends sometime in 2008.  The last message here is...   
      
   = GOLDED (3:640/384) ==========================================================   
    Msg  : 933 of 933                             
    From : Kevin Klement                       1:342/77        24 Apr 13 16:27:03   
    To   : Max Vasilyev   
    Subj : GoldED+ snapshot 2013.01.11   
   ===============================================================================   
      
   Which came in via: @PATH: 342/77 140/1 261/38 712/848 640/954   
      
    PQ>> I changed my ~xlat files yesterday to use GoldEd's "866_850.chs". Of   
    PQ>> course, no one has yet attempted to post using CP866. I've checked   
    PQ>> the *.chs files, as you have no doubt also, and they seem compatible   
    PQ>> (even the TimEd ones too, though the naming isn't).   
      
    ml> TimED, the original one, also takes them and combines them into a   
    ml> binary file for its use... i have no idea what the newer TimED   
    ml> does...   
      
   New version?  Hunh?  :)  I have no need to use it.  I did use it extensively   
   about a decade ago but I've 'moved on'.  The archive I have is for TimEd 1.10   
   - the DOS version.   
      
   FYI.  I tried using a translation module for GoldEd called 1252_850.chs,   
   yesterday, that came in an archive from Michiel van der Vlist (a personalised   
   compile of his)...   
      
    --- 8< ---   
    This module converts CP1252 (Windows Western) characters   
    to IBM CP850 characters.   
    --- 8< ---   
      
   It seemed to have some promise, and I asked Alexander to use that charset.    
   However, JamNNTPd choked on it and spewed numerous "Warning: Too long byte   
   string [char]" errors so we quit using it.  Just FYI.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
   ... If only Life had a scroll-back buffer with cut & paste.   
   --- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox   
    * Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)