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|    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           |
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