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Bill@lyons.demon.co.uk wrote:

> 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.
....
his 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
>
I'll leave that to  the PCOAK experts. I don't think I've ever seen the =20
between words,  perhaps I'm not saving much e-mail to a file. It does
show  in some  e-mails when I have hit 1 to get PCOAK to deal with a
coded file but that's not a problem like you've been getting.

I do have one little mystery which happens only in one correspondent's
messages.  Where he has typed the apostrophe  ',  it appears in both  mail
reader (READIT.EXE) and when I do a Reply using my editor TSE.EXE.
Here are two of the words - I don't know what will happen to them after
going through  the  nntp system.
IN case they vanish or something, it is the Greek character thatis an A
and an E joined together.  I think the aSCII number is 92.
 ...
 hasn�t
 There�s
...

> 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).

Hear hear!  The group has  certainly been dead as a doornail for some
months now.  I really began to wonder if I was the only living soul
still using DIS.  I'm  probably the only one in the states, but I have been
exchanging e-mails - mainly about writing - with a chap in Canada who
likes DOS, but has to use Windows for some things;  he doesn't of
course use the DIS  set of programs.
--
Ian