Bob, at 12:48 on Jun 14 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

DM> Like this - One SOT/EOT coming up ....
DM> {at}
DM> That was a SOT, entered manually through the keyboard
DM> 

BG> I have quoted your entire message as it appeared here this
BG> morning, and as you can see, it's back to the drawing board for
BG> you. :) 

BL> I think you'll find that Dieter's '01 and '04 will be in your
BL> packet if you look at it with a hex editor.

It certainly is, Ollie.

BL> It's MsgEd that is translating the '01 to {at}.

Agreed (and just proved), but why?  If, for some obscure reason, I wish to
use 01 in a message, I certainly don't want Msged arbitrarily altering it
for me.  I'm not sure that earlier versions did an automatic translation
either.

BL> It is Paul's contention that '01 is an illegal character. MsgEd
BL> translates it to {at}, but that does not make it illegal. I'll do the
BL> same in my version of the packet reader, and translate '00 as well,
BL> plus Tear lines, Origin lines and SEENBY's, but it's a metter of
BL> choice.

Damn right, too.  There are 256 characters available, and I want to be able
to use ALL of them, not just those which somebody else reckons is OK.

Regards, Bill
@EOT:

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