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Article #931PCOak: "quoted-printable" - aaaargh!
From: Bill Lyons
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:03
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:03
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Simon and other dispc'ers, I am getting fed up with the increasing number of emails which are apparently text-only but actually encoded "quoted-printable". They show fine when displayed via PCOak, but when you save them and open them in a text editor, or when you try and forward them, the dreaded "=20" instead of space between every word becomes apparent and they become unreadable. I assume this is a piece of MicroSh***ery to make use of DOS harder. I have tried to remove the rubbish by search and replace, and more recently by exporting to (blush) OE, then forwarding to myself in text format, finally marrying the original headers to the now cleaned up text. This seems a stupidly complicated way of being able to file or forward in clean DOS text form. Have you any simpler way of achieving this? Regards Bill P.S. Have been following recent rather off-topic postings: now that dispc is populated by just a few dedicated DOSsers and the nit-pickers seem to have buzzed off, it has become a really friendly ng which I hope will long continue as an informal forum for a group of like-minded simpletons (by which I mean lovers of the simplicity of DOS). -- Bill Lyons - Bill@lyons.demon.co.uk / w.lyons@ieee.org
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