Answering msg from Paul Edwards to rowan crowe,
on Wednesday June 14 1995 at 08:31

 PE>> OH SHIT!!!  I stuffed that logic up.  I thought I tested it out,
 PE>> god only knows what happened.  New alpha time!  BFN.  Paul.

 rc>> I thought for a moment you had decided to display all
 rc>> characters, including so-called soft CRs, in case they were part
 rc>> of the text (in a foreign character set). ;-)

 PE> That's EXACTLY what I had decided to do, believing what I had read
 PE> in NET_DEV, that the practice of using x'8d' was completely dead.
 PE> It appears that it is dead, but not yet buried.  So now I only
 PE> display x'8d' if the sender uses SOT/EOT, since that explicitly
 PE> disallows x'8d' as a formatting character.  BFN.  Paul.

    My original reply to you was half joking but it sounds like the way you
*intended* :) to implement it is quite sensible. Have you got it right yet
though? ;-)

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