BL> BTW, how do you know where to add your EOT? Read the
BL> Tear line, do you? If that's the case, what's it doing
BL> that the Tear line doesn't do? Your EOT logic is loony.

FM> Actually, that's a very good point. If an automated
FM> process can determine where to place a SOT/EOT pair,
FM> then by trivial proof a SOT/EOT pair ain't necessary.

RS> You've had a brain fart. That doesnt apply to what is CREATING the message,

RS> say taking what an external editor hands it as user text, bracketing
RS> that with the SOT/EOT pair, and THEN doing whatever it chooses to with
RS> control info outside the block of user text its not concerned with.

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

FM> Yeah, I appreciate that. If you're the original creator
FM> of the message you know where to stuff the SOT/EOT.

And THATS what the SOT/EOT is about, the original creator
of the message. Avoiding producing a message which can
cause problems with stuff like embedded origin lines etc.

FM> But Paul is presumably doing so, by an automated
FM> process (I don't *think* he's personally inside my
FM> computer) in QWK2PKT, and Bob in whatever he's doing.

And THATS where you are having your brain fart, thats NOT what the
SOT/EOT is primarily designed to be used, so the fact that its got
some blemishes in THAT situation says nothing useful whatever about
whether its useful for the original creator of the message.

So your 'isnt necessary' has imploded.

FM> And of course it maybe easier coming from QWK, if it doesn't have
FM> kludge lines anyway. But hang on, I get the opinion from your current
FM> discussion with Paul on this that it's not the ^a kludge lines which
FM> are the problem, it's the 'text' kludge lines (like ---) which are.
FM> And surely they're still a potential problem coming from QWK.

Pity that if the SOT/EOT has some value with original creators of
PKTs, your 'isnt necessary' has imploded tho. Its not about QWKs.

FM> SO. If it's possible for an automated process to do
FM> it, it ain't necessary. Except perhaps for efficiency.

Pity that thats ONLY an automated QWK/PKT convertor Frank.

Says nothing useful whatever about whether its necessary
for an original creator of a message in PKT format.
@EOT:

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