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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Edwards
from: Frank Malcolm
date: 1996-05-23 03:23:14
subject: Funny characters

Hi, Paul.

PE> FM> This message was from FRANK MALCOLM to Tomi Skytta
PE> FM> originally in conference PASCAL
PE> FM> and was forwarded to you by FRANK MALCOLM

PE> FM> Fuck, I've done it again. Can you remember what the problem was? Can
PE> you
PE> FM> remember what the solution was? I'll try sending it again.

PE> NULs in the message.  The solution is for you to not use stupid

Thank you.

PE> software like your reader.  Another solution is to ask the reader

The solution is not to have brain-dead software designed by brain-dead
'C' programmers who use NULLs to define the end of things.

PE> author to fix his software.  Another thing you were to try was to
PE> vary the quote string, but you said at that stage you were just
PE> going to use proper software.

Well I'm not. I'm using OLX because it's got a usable and useful user
interface and I *still* don't know whether all that stuff you've
recommended looks any better than some bloody command line utility in
drag.

Regards, fIM.

 * * No more money for Mickey. Use 4DOS and DRDOS
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