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From: "Digital Man" <[email protected]>
Subject: NOTE
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 To: Carlos Navarro
 Re: NOTE
 By: Carlos Navarro to Digital Man on Sat May 04 2024 07:03 pm

> I understand that the NOTE kludge shows the editor used for posting a
> message.
>
> Why NOTE? (NOTEpad?)

I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure the use of that kludge pre-dates notepad.exe in Windows existence.

> Other than SBBS, is there any other software that generates it?

Yeah, I think I first saw that with QuikEdit, ICEedit, TIDE, etc.
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