Hi Richard,   
      
    RW> Which version of Squish, which operating system?   
      
   It's Squish/386 version 1.11, running on DOS. Well, actually, running in a   
   DOXBox window, which is running in a Windows 7 VM, which is running in   
   Parallels Desktop on a Macbook Pro, which is running OS X 10.8.2. Why do it   
   the easy way?  :-)   
      
    RW> FIrst thing I note is your squish is using the undersc ore   
    RW> character, ascii 95 instead of the regular dash character,   
    RW> ascii 45.   
      
   Interesting. Squish is putting in whatever it wants to by default; I'm not   
   defining a tearline anywhere, just an origin line. If Squish thinks that ASCII   
   95 is the correct character to use in the tear, that would explain why it's   
   adding one even if there's a previous (ASCII 45) tear in the message, added   
   buy GOldED+ - if Squish is looking for three 95 chars and what's there is 3 45   
   chars.   
      
   There's no GoldED+ tear in the messages I'm sending out because I've   
   configured GoldED+ to not add one - I don't want to end up with two, which is   
   what was happening when I was testing.   
      
   Thanks for your help, I'll see what I can figure out.   
      
   Daniel   
      
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