ml>> ok and you uncompressed it and looked at the MSG file inside it?

 DC> I didn't find _any_ kludge lines.  I think that they get
 DC> hidden in the uncompress process, as I know that they are
 DC> there.  As above, they reappear at least when imported
 DC> into TerMail.

i'll try to show you a bit more directly what i'm talking about...

the following is 74 characters wide... hopefully wordwrapping won't screw
it up too badly...

offset  hex number of data character                     data block
======  ===============================================  ================
000080  20 20 31 39 32 20 20 20 30 31 2D 30 38 2D 30 34    192   01-08-04
000090  32 30 3A 35 30 41 6C 6C 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20:50All
0000A0  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 4D 41                MA
0000B0  52 4B 20 4C 45 57 49 53 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  RK LEWIS
0000C0  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 66 6F 6F 20 62 61 72 20 20         foo bar
0000D0  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
0000E0  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
0000F0  20 20 20 20 34 20 20 20 20 20 E1 C0 00 20 20 20      4     ...
000100  74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 20 74 65 73 74 2E 2E  this is a test..
000110  2E E3 E3 74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 20 74 65 73  ...this is a tes
000120  74 20 6F 66 20 74 68 65 20 43 54 52 4C 2D 41 20  t of the CTRL-A
000130  63 68 61 72 61 63 74 65 72 20 2D 2D 20 27 01 27  character -- '.'
000140  E3 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  .
000150  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
000160  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 5E E3 69 20              ^.i
000170  68 61 64 20 74 6F 20 68 69 74 20 43 54 52 4C 2D  had to hit CTRL-
000180  50 20 43 54 52 4C 2D 41 20 74 6F 20 70 75 74 20  P CTRL-A to put
000190  74 68 69 73 20 6F 6E 65 20 5E 20 69 6E 20 70 6C  this one ^ in pl
0001A0  61 63 65 2E 2E 2E E3 E3 6A 75 73 74 20 6C 69 6B  ace.....just lik
0001B0  65 20 74 68 65 20 6F 6C 64 20 64 61 79 73 21 21  e the old days!!
0001C0  20 69 6E 74 65 72 65 73 74 69 6E 67 2E 2E 2E 20  interesting...
0001D0  69 20 6A 75 73 74 20 6E 6F 74 69 63 65 64 20 74  i just noticed t
0001E0  68 61 74 20 74 68 69 73 E3 69 73 20 75 73 69 6E  hat this.is usin
0001F0  67 20 74 68 65 20 6F 72 69 67 69 6E 61 6C 20 44  g the original D
000200  4F 53 20 45 44 49 54 20 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 2C  OS EDIT program,
000210  20 74 6F 6F 2E 2E 2E E3 E3 29 5C 2F 28 61 72 6B  too.....)\/(ark
000220  E3 20 E3 2D 2D 2D 20 4D 75 6C 74 69 4D 61 69 6C  . .--- MultiMail
000230  2F 4D 53 2D 44 4F 53 20 76 30 2E 34 35 E3 20 20  /MS-DOS v0.45.

all the 20s are space characters... QWK stuff doesn't carry control/kludge
lines like fidonet does... the above is a complete message written in area
192 on Jan 8th, 2004 at 20:50 addressed to 'All' with a subject of 'foo
bar'... i replaced all highbit and control characters with '.' in the data
block column... offset 130 is the line that contains the CTRL-A character
that i put in... my "marker" was the actual sentence telling what
i was doing...

does this make more sense?

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