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|    Alan Ianson to Rob Swindell    |
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|    25 Oct 20 20:41:11    |
      REPLY: 5043.mbse@1:103/705 23fb55e7       MSGID: 1:153/757@fidonet 5f964b77       CHRS: UTF-8 2       TZUTC: -0700       TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.0.7.18 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)       Hello Rob,               RS> The QWK format actually has its own unique line-ending sequence: 227        RS> (0xE3). I don't know the history/reason why (ASCII 10, '\n', seems        RS> like it would have worked fine). According to one QWK spec, this was        RS> to "save space", but that doesn't really make sense. Anyway, MultiMail        RS> and (presumably) other QWK readers do not actually wrap text with        RS> CRLF, though perhaps they should. :-)              Multimail does seem to wrap message text with CRLF line endings, or maybe it's        the editor that does that. I can seem if I inspect messages in a BW reply        packet before uploading.               >> and I think MBSE does that with messages saved on the BBS also.               RS> Should be okay if it does. FidoNet messages are supposed to be '\r'        RS> terminated paragraphs (line-feeds are ignored), so where FidoNet is        RS> concerned, CRLF or CR should work fine.              I had a look at a message I posted in MBSE inside a .pkt that was waiting in        the outbound. It also had CRLF line endings although they may have been put        there by the editor also. That's not a problem on an 80x25 screen, it looks        good. If you look at that on a wider screen it'll still be wrapped for that 80        character wide terminal, unless your terminal can unwrap it for you.               >> I'm looking at these messages inside of .pkt files. These lines        >> start with a CRLF, it's completely out of place there.               RS> It should be fine. The only case where it would not be fine is control        RS> paragraphs (kludge lines) which must begin with a single CR (0x0D)        RS> character.              I'm not sure what a control paragraph should look like so I can't say if it is        correct or not.              Would you mind looking over this packet and tell us what you think? I think        you could explain what is happening, if anything better than I can.              http://trmb.ca/5f0abae3.pkt              This is a test message I wrote to myself from 757.2 to 757.3 and this is the        .pkt that MBSE created for 757.3. This packet contains (I think) uneeded and        unwanted CRLF's at the beginning of lines.              http://trmb.ca/d319271e.pkt              This is the input .pkt that was sent to 153/757 to forward on to 757.3 if you        would like to look. It contain CRLF's as you'd expect.              --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707        * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 18/200 90/1 120/340 123/131 226/30 227/114 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/275 424 426 452 550 664 1016 240/5832 249/206 317 400       SEEN-BY: 292/854 317/3 322/757 342/200 633/280       PATH: 153/757 221/6 154/10 280/464 229/101 426           |
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