Re: End of lines

From: Piotr Keplicz (keplicz@bigfoot.com)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:53:51 +0100

Alan Clifford <alan@coprolite.prestel.co.uk>:
: 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?

It's because of a ,,quoted-printable'' encoding of his messages. It's
used to encode national 8-bit characters so that they can be safely
sent thru 7-bit systems. They are replaced by =XX, where XX stands
for a hexadecimal code of the character. It implies that '=' sign is
replaced by '=3D'. Also, when a line length exceeds 70-something
characters, it becomes broken with a '=' sign at the end.

Since Yarn is not too clever at ,,quoted-printables'', there's a
utility that does a conversion: SOUPLK,
ftp://parnas.mimuw.edu.pl/pub/users/keplicz/piotr/souplk.zip.

However, this won't help about those long lines...

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