BL> And nowhere in any FTS document does it specify I must *not*
BL> type #1EOT in the text window. 

PE> It DOES say that that becomes a kludge line.

BL>   *Where* does it say that?

This is the last time I take the effort to quote what you can
easily see for yourself.  As Rod said, you have gone into the
same mode as you did with TVs...

      If the first character of a physical line (e.g. the first character of
      the  message text, or the character immediately after a hard  carriage
      return (ignoring any linefeeds)) is a ^A (, 01H), then that
      line  is  not  displayed  as  it  contains  control  information.  The
      convention for such control lines is:
        o They begin with ^A
        o They end at the end of the physical line (i.e. ignore soft s).
        o They begin with a keyword followed by a colon.
        o The keywords are uniquely assigned to applications.
        o They keyword/colon pair is followed by application specific data.
@EOT:

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