mailx is putting a ^A in random place in mail file

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From: mark.emanuele
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 18:06

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I've been experiencing a repeated problem with mailx(1) on AT&T SVR4 2.1
 that maybe you can help me with. After leaving mailx and returning
 at a later time to the same folder, some mail entries in the folder
 have been changed to binary type which cannot be printed or edited
 within the folder. mailx(1) determines they are "binary" because they
 have non-printable characters in them - in almost all cases these
 characters are cntl A's and appear in a vi edit of the folder as
 "^A"'s. I believe these contol characters are generated in the folder
 by leaving it and later returning - they are not in the original
 messages.
 
 

Please e-mail responses to memanuele@attmail.com and I will post a summary

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From: memanuel@cbnews.cb.att.com (mark.emanuele)
Subject: mailx is putting a ^A in random place in mail file
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:06:43 GMT
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