Answering msg from andrew clarke to Bill Grimsley,
on Tuesday April 25 1995 at 15:43

 ac> I disagree with certain points in Paul's SOT/EOT specification which
 ac> have no relevance to "Distinguishing user-entered text", nor can I
 ac> guarantee my software will comply with the entire proposal, nor do I
 ac> see a particular need for my system to use SOT/EOT aside from making
 ac> Paul a happier person.

    I noticed that Paul either did not receive, or did not reply, to my
recent message to him in Z3_NETDEV, pointing out that the date format was
quite irrelevant unless the editor happened to create fidonet date formats
(*.MSG is the only one I know of.) It's the tosser that will generally
create the fidonet style date format, and SOT/EOT is for editors (on
originating system, anyway).

 BG>> The way Msged works now (re "-+-" etc), the SOT/EOT should be
 BG>> hard-coded IMO.

 ac> The sooner it is hard-coded, the sooner I recompile the source to
 ac> disable it.

    Jolly good show, eh.

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