Re: End of lines
From: Thomas Heye (heye@netcologne.de)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:10:47 -0500
In article <1g3T2Im2Zr6C092yn@coprolite.prestel.co.uk>,
alan@coprolite.prestel.co.uk (Alan Clifford) wrote:
>
>I receive messages from my son who uses his Psion 5 to send the
>messages.
>
>His paragraphs are not wrapped but just wrap at column 80 in the middle
>of a word
>
>I had a look at one of his messages in the inbox file and there is a
>linefeed character where the line should be wrapped. But it is
>proceeded by an =
>
>When the editor, is invoked, again the line feed is ignored.
>
>But when I save the message to a file and look at it in the editor, the
>linefeed has been recognized but there is an = sign showing.
>
>As other people have complained about his messages, is the = character,
>(3Dh) used a some sort of switch character? And will it effect paragraph
>3 above where I have purposely put an = at the end of the paragraph?
>
>Alan
>
>
Hallo, alan!
I think this has something to do with the conversion o character sets.
This happens to me when I get messages encoded as "quoted-printable". So
you should add a "charset=" line to your configuration file with the
appropriate ISO character set definition / "number" (sorry, I can't tell
you which!).
There's also a package of "yarn utilities" available (yet I can't find where I got it from). It's written by Oliver Brusberg, but it's no longer updated - unfortunately. This package contains, among others, a program converting Windows texts to normal ASCII. There are also utilities to manipulate folders with: You can convert folders to text files and back, sort folders, convert folders into soup package, etc. I found this package very handy when I changed from using Nettamer to yarn.
Good luck!
Thomas