Hi, Paul.

PE> RS> You've had a brain fart. That doesnt apply to what is CREATING the
PE> message,
PE> RS> say taking what an external editor hands it as user text, bracketing
PE> that
PE> RS> with the SOT/EOT pair, and THEN doing whatever it chooses to with
PE> control
PE> RS> info outside the block of user text its not concerned with.

PE> RS> Its just as true if its got an internal editor too.

PE> FM> Yeah, I appreciate that. If you're the original creator of the message
PE> FM> you know where to stuff the SOT/EOT. But Paul is presumably doing so,
PE> by
PE> FM> an automated process

PE> You would do far better if you listened to my reply rather than

I shall, it's in my 'pending' folder.

PE> Bob's lies.  I don't know what else to call them, as the statements
PE> he made were completely false.  I am a bit hesitant to call them
PE> lies though, because I knew he had no idea one way or the other
PE> what my code actually did, he just made it up.  Maybe "fantasies"
PE> is more appropriate?  How about "wanking with his calculator"?

I can't work out whether you two just have a difference of opinion on
the usefulness of SOT/EOT, or whether Bob (or even you) is missing some
basic point in the other's argument. Perhaps when I come to study your
reply it will become clear.

Regards, fIM.

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