Hi, Paul.

Would you care to comment on Eef's comments below?

Regards, fIM.

EH>  FM> No I didn't know that. I'm surprised that you saw a tab (which is
EH>  FM> actually #9, #12 is FF) in my message. I don't normally type

EH> Indeed: tab is ctrl-I is #9, FF is ctrl-L = #12.

EH> According to FTS-0001 BOTH are illegal in packets, though.

EH> A packet consists of:
EH> printable chars in the range 32-126 (for text and the text fields in
EH> header)
EH> 0 byte (terminator for text)
EH> control chars #13 (CR, end of physical line) and optional #10 (LF) and #141
EH> (soft-CR), plus #1 at the start of kludge lines.

EH> And that is it. No other control chars, no "chars >
126", except for this
EH> #141 (and of course the binary bytes and words in the binary fields of the
EH> header).

EH>  FM> I think that's it. I understand that the PKT standard is to use
EH>  FM> #141 as a 'soft' carriage return (CR + 128) but what I don't yet know
EH> is
EH>  FM> whether those should get into the outgoing PKT or be stripped.

EH> Both is possible. They ARE allowed in .PKT's but when
"tossing" those you
EH> MAY strip them if you do not want them.


 * * Beat two eggs?? Why?? What did the eggs do?
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