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echo: bluewave
to: Alan Ianson
from: mark lewis
date: 2019-05-08 22:59:50
subject: Blue Wave & SemPoint

On 2019 May 08 01:50:52, you wrote to All:

 AI> Is there a Blue Wave developer in the house,

no, they don't exist any more, AFAIK...

 AI> or someone who can answer a question for me?

we can only try ;)

 AI> A user has uploaded mail to my BBS in Blue Wave format but there seems
 AI> to be a formatting problem, his messages may contain a few paragraphs
 AI> but when processed by the offline mail system here the message text
 AI> all gets bunched together into one paragraph. It makes it hard to read
 AI> his posts. He is using SemPoint at his end.

sempoint does BW packets??

[...]

 AI> In his reply packet there are CRs where you would expect them (but no LF,
 AI> or newline) to be and in my upload packet there are CR/LF pairs.

 AI> So my question is.. what is the correct way to format a Blue Wave reply
 AI> packet?

 AI> Is it OK to just use CR or should there be a CR/LF pair?

based on your description and the fact that BW originates from the DOS
world, i'd say that CRLF EOL pairs are required... what you are seeing
could be the result of whatever editor the user is using with their
sempoint installation... if they can, they should force their editor to use
CRLF pairs when editing sempoint messages

aside from that, here's a link to the BW structures but they don't say
anything about the line endings used...

  http://help-site.com/local/BWSTRUCT.TXT


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