Subj : Lterminationtion in msgs issued by mbse
To : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Vince Coen
Date : Sat Feb 25 2017 08:55 pm
Hello Wilfred!
Saturday February 25 2017 21:32, you wrote to me:
Thanks for that Wilfred, so guess it is down to user's editor
(Multimail/Darwin) not set up correctly one way or another.
This was his text msg:
-!-
Since The Eastern Star (whom I’ve been getting my main echo feed from) has
shut down I linked to all the echos you have available and noticed a strange
issue with either your Areafix, Synchronet or SBBSECHO.
Basically, some messages (such as the result of %ADD and %RESCAN) look fine
but
others (such as the output from %HELP/%LIST) do not.
In any case, this is what I get in both MultiMail and on Synchronet itself:
-!-
First time anyone mentioned a problem.
I have passed on your response, thanks again,
Vince
> Hi,
> On 2017-02-25 18:45:42, Vince Coen wrote to All:
> about: "Line termination in msgs issued by mbse":
VC>> It has been reported to me that replies from areafix / filemgr
VC>> within mbse have only been terminated with a LF as in Linux text
VC>> format recods etc.
VC>> Problem is I have at least one downlink that uses a Windows based
VC>> product and is getting a flow of chars on one or more lines that
VC>> are not formatted with LFCR :
VC>> Is there any way of dealing with this ?
VC>> And still cope with downlinks using Linux.
> It's not a matter of Windows or Linux. It's a matter of fidonet.
> FTS-0001 has this to say about it:
> A 'hard' carriage return, 0DH, marks the end of a paragraph,
> and must
> be preserved.
> So called 'soft' carriage returns, 8DH, may mark a
> previous
> processor's automatic line wrap, and should be ignored. Beware
> that
> they may be followed by linefeeds, or may not.
> All linefeeds, 0AH, should be ignored. Systems which display
> message
> text should wrap long lines to suit their application.
> Bye, Wilfred.
Vince
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