Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Shawn Highfield:

MK> It will fail when you try to create or reply and quote utf8
MK> messages.  Same with msged while we're at it.  This is *exactly* why
MK> Nicholas Boel and I started discussing things like vim and/or nano
MK> backends for golded and/or msged to compensate for their obvious
MK> abandonware handicaps.

  That's okay, that's how I do it here anyway. ;)  DOS knows nothing, so I
reply to the message and hit a keyboard combo and vim pops it up where I can
read it.  Not perfect but better then 90% of the dos fidonetters. ;)

Shawn
... I couldn't repair the brakes, so I made your horn louder.
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