-={ Thursday, June 04 2015, 22:33:20 -0700 }=-

Hey Alan!

 AI> Yep, AFIK we should be good in this area.

Yeppers.  Definetly good vibes from the right direction ... despite all the
stinkin' Windows software that is.  :::sigh:::  Kids these days eh?

 AI> That's right, on this box I use en_CA.UTF-8

Okee dokee I think I have you properly adjusted now.  Outputting en_CA.utf8
which is basically ascii as it turns out.  I am leaving the default as
fr_CA.utf8 though as it will occasionally throw a multibyte character into the
extra-special datetime stamp in the message body when appropriate.

While I have your attention, what do you think about the ftn address splitting
routine?  I use it for things like;

  bso_ctrl_basename=$(printf "%04x%04x" $destNet $destNode)

Works like a charm.

Life is good,
Maurice

... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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