"Wilfred van Velzen -> Michiel van der Vlist"
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news:8473$fido.fmail_help{at}JamNNTPd:

 MvdV>> I would like the box characters replaced by something that looks
 MvdV>> good on
 MvdV>> CP850 as well. Presently the boxes look like this in my WIN98SE
 WvV>   command MvdV> line box:

 WvV> Maybe, you should upgrade to Windows XP, they look fine here! ;)

i don't know what michiel's reader is but on my TimEd setup, they looked
quite ok... however, when reading from my nntp server via XNews, i saw what
he was talking about...

in this instance, the boxed frame was converted to 7bit ascii... i'd have to
go back thru the source code i have for the nntp server i'm running, but i
believe that this conversion is done by a routine in that nntp server when
it transmits the message to the remote client... it should take a minor
tweak of this routine to facilitate this conversion...

well, that is unless it is also wrapped up in characterset translations :?

)\/(ark