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echo: aust_c_here
to: Paul Edwards
from: Andrew MacIntyre
date: 1993-08-21 08:24:22
subject: tobruk - ..msg format

In your message of 19 Aug (21:04 hrs) to All, you wrote:

 PE> From something I read, 0x8d for soft CRs is the OLD way of doing 
 PE> things.  Hopefully this practice will disappear because it 
 PE> interferes with the Japanese etc characters.  I was just 
 PE> wondering what the new practice was!  BFN.

FWIW, my understanding is that all "soft" CRs should be stripped
from the message when it is stored.  They are only a convenience for a
message editor, and whenever someone has different margins the message
editor should reformat the paragraph to suit anyway.

Regards, Andrew.

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