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echo: fidotest
to: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
from: AUGUST ABOLINS
date: 2020-06-09 16:16:00
subject: IBM437 to IBMPC

Hello Michiel!

** On Tuesday 09.06.20 - 15:53, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>>   https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/charsets/IBM437
 AA>>   https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml

 MvdV> That's not Fidonet.

If CP437 is (which is an alias, btw), then IBM437 (the proper name) is.


 MvdV> Why not use real Fidonet software for you messages in Fidonet
 MvdV> instead of sofware mainly designed for e-mail and usenet?

Granted, I heard that oxp was adapted for ftn, but it works quite well  
afaik.  If you have a grievance, take it up with the developer with your  
officiality and tell him how broken oxp is.

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