ml>> another silly item is that soft carriage return that QWK
 ml>> stuff uses... its the lowercase i with an apostrophe over it
 ml>> instead of the dot...

 WM> QWK does NOT use soft CRs. QWK has its own line delimiter,
 WM> character 227, which is the Pi symbol in IBM CP437. I don't
 WM> know how Fido got stuck with soft CRs (or why some software
 WM> is still producing them), but it's got nothing to do with
 WM> QWK.

my mistake... yes, both are an annoyance and really not necessary if the
software properly handles its own wordwrapping...

)\/(ark