Subj : Re: Netmail issue
To   : Vincent Coen
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Sun Oct 25 2020 11:32 am

Vincent Coen wrote to Alan Ianson:

VC> I cannot think of a reason why mbse a Linux product would create a Win/dos

VC> new line as that's the CRLF two bytes block as *nix ony uses one byte.

I guess it's the DOS heritage of BBSing. Multimail and other QWK readers
will wrap your text up with CRLF at the end of lines and I think MBSE does
that with messages saved on the BBS also.

CRLF has been a PITA since day one. It makes messages harder to format on a
screen that is a different size than what it was saved on. It was great to
format messages for an 80x25 screen when everyone was using that but not
everyone uses that today.

VC> Is this block being created from a msg created within mbse, i.e., say
VC> golded or other message editor ?

I'm looking at these messages inside of .pkt files. These lines start with a
CRLF, it's completely out of place there.

Ttyl :-),
        Al

... Always listen to experts, hear the impossible, then do it.

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