David Chord wrote: 
 MC> What does it have to do with the TP/BP string
 MC> data type variable which you say is getting lopped off by something
 MC> here?  
 DC> Fido message formats - a paragraph doesn't have a HCR at the end of
 DC> every line, only at the end of a paragraph. So, in a text editor a
 DC> paragraph just appears as one long line. 
 DC> It's just a text file created by an external message editor, only what
 DC> appears as a paragraph on screen becomes one long line in the file -
 DC> maybe a couple of thousand characters (how large is the largest
 DC> paragraph you've seen?) 
I'm not sure about BlueWave message format, but QWK format uses as many
contiguous 128 byte blocks as needed to store message text, and appends
a char #127 to mark the end (the last block is padded if necessary).
You'll have to parse out each text line so it fits the screen properly
yourself.
If you need the QWK specs I can send them to you. I have BW as well,
I think.
Kim Forwood
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