"Michiel van der Vlist -> mark lewis"  wrote in
news:8488$fido.fmail_help{at}JamNNTPd:

 MvdV> Hello mark,

 MvdV> On Friday February 15 2008 16:02, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>>>  i========== Main (c)
 MvdV>>>  |                |
 MvdV>>>  | Miscellaneous  |
 MvdV>>>  | System info    |
 MvdV>>>  | Import/export  |
 MvdV>>>  | Uplink manager |
 MvdV>>>  | Pack manager   |
 MvdV>>>  | Node manager   |
 MvdV>>>  | Area manager   |
 MvdV>>>  |                |
 MvdV>>>  E================�


 ml>> just a quick reply to show you what i saw... dunno if they'll make
 MvdV>   it ml> back thru properly or not, though :?

 MvdV> The only non ASCII character I see in there is the Yen sign in the lower
 MvdV> right corner.

yeah... the copyright got converted to "(c)" on the way back thru :(

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 ml>> remember, this is when read in Xnews on win98 via jamnntp that i
 ml>> compiled myself on OS/2 with EMX ;)

 MvdV> Well, it obviously tries to translate the boxes into somthing that fits
 MvdV> into 7 bits.

 MvdV> But the issue was not how it looks when these characters are passed
 MvdV> trough the mail, the issue was how it looks on my screen when I run
 MvdV> Fmail.

in a DOSbox on win98?? it should be just fine... it is on ly system...
errmmm... well... earlier versions are... i've still got the last one
released by the original author on my win98se box for one of my point
systems...

sounds like something is definitely screwed up somewhere :?

)\/(ark