"Michiel van der Vlist -> mark lewis"  wrote in
news:8483$fido.fmail_help{at}JamNNTPd:

 MvdV> It is running under WIN98SE. The problem with win98 is that its DOS box
 MvdV> is set to CP850 and you can only change that in full screen mode.

i'm guessing that "it" indicates you mail reader?

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 ml>> but on my TimEd setup, they looked quite ok... however, when reading
 ml>> from my nntp server via XNews, i saw what he was talking about...

 MvdV> You may have seen something differemt than what I saw. I see a box that
 MvdV> is ok, expect for the corners. The corners show (from top left,
 MvdV> clockwise) a not sign, a copyright sign, a Yen sign end an E with grave.

i think that's pretty much what i just described in another reply where i
went back and replied directly to your first message... that message should
be right before this message...

 ml>> in this instance, the boxed frame was converted to 7bit ascii...

 MvdV> Hmmm...

i'm pretty sure that conversion was done by jamnntp as the other two you
showed that you'd rather see were also converted and used +'s for each of
the corners as well as having the sides converted to 7-bit... |'s for
verticals on both and -'s or ='s on the horizontals...

        +---------+         +==========+
        |  this   |    or   |  that    |
        |         |         |          |
        +---------+         +==========+

i just copied them from your original and pasted them above... dunno if
they'll come back to you still in 7-bit format or not :?

)\/(ark