home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.

   POINTS      Point usage discussion and systems suppo      3,070 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 1,919 of 3,070   
   Martin Foster to August Abolins   
   cp437   
   04 Jul 20 09:43:54   
   
   REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet e60cd0fc   
   MSGID: 2:310/31.3 5f0044a5   
   CHRS: CP850 2   
   TZUTC: 0100   
   TID: CrashMail II/Win32 0.7   
   *** Answering a msg posted in area FIDOTEST (FIDOTEST).   
      
   Hello August!   
      
   *** Thursday July 02 2020 21:46, you wrote to Sean Dennis:   
      
    AA> @MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet e60cd0fc   
    AA> @PID: OpenXP/5.0.45 (Win32)   
    AA> @CHRS: CP437 2   
               ^^^^^^^   
    AA> @TZUTC: -0400   
    AA> Hello Sean!   
      
    AA> ** On Thursday 02.07.20 - 19:36, Sean Dennis wrote to Mauro Veiga:   
      
    MV>>> I believe to be sufficient that the reader is able to read CP437.   
    MV>>> Every old mail reader does that.   
      
    SD>> Indeed.  My BBS uses CP437 and Multimail uses CP437 so it all   
    SD>> works for me.   
      
    AA> But the original did not have any char kludge. But not all readers   
    AA> fall  back to CP437 as a default.  Usually the default is to just use   
    AA> the plain  text range?   
      
    AA> BTW.. OpenXP has been adjusted to announce CP437 in lieu of the hottly   
    AA>  debated IBM437.   
      
    AA> This message should have the former if I include some graphic lines:   
      
   Indeed it does when viewed with GoldED+ but when viewed with OpenXP, the CHRS   
   kludge is IBM437:   
      
   === Cut ===   
    > EMP: /FIDO/FIDOTEST   
    > ABS: August Abolins@2:221/1.58   
    > BET: cp437   
    > ROT: 2:310/31!221/1 280/464 310/31   
    > MID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet e60cd0fc   
    > EDA: 20200703014600W-4   
    > LEN: 1115   
    > MAILER: OpenXP/5.0.45 (Win32) / OpenXP 5.0.45   
    > X_C:   
    > X-XP-NTP: 30   
    > F-TO: Sean Dennis   
    > X-XP-Charset: IBM437   
                    ^^^^^^   
   === Cut ===   
      
    AA> È É Ê Ë  û   
      
    AA> ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿   
    AA> ³  Open \\//             5.0.45 (Win32) (c) 1992-99 Peter Mandrella  ³   
    AA> ³       //\\ XP                           (c) 2000-2020 OpenXP-Team  ³   
    AA> ³                                       OpenSSL 1.0.2u  20 Dec 2019  ³   
    AA> ³                                                                    ³   
      
   Ummmmmmm, not quite sure what's going on here, it's just as though OpenXP has   
   changed CP437 2 back to IBM437, IYSWIM ???????   
      
   Regards,   
   Martin   
      
   --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20180707   
    * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)   
   SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 120/340 601 123/131 154/10 203/0 221/0 226/30   
   SEEN-BY: 227/114 702 229/101 424 426 664 1014 240/2100 5138 5832 5853   
   SEEN-BY: 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 288/100 292/854 8125 310/31   
   SEEN-BY: 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120 712/848 770/1   
   SEEN-BY: 2432/390 2452/250 2454/119   
   PATH: 310/31 280/464 240/5832 229/426   
      

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca