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Article #936Re: PCOak: "quoted-printable" - aaaargh!
From: Dr J R Stockton
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:59
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:59
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In demon.ip.support.pc message <20070724.1803.212079snz@lyons.demon.co.u k>, Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:03:34, Bill Lyons <Bill@lyons.demon.co.uk> posted: >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. While obviously it would be best to have this dealt with by PCOak, have you tried using DEMIME (ZIP PAS EXE via sig line 3)? It can be used as a filter, editor, or copier, and has provision for not altering headers. Re Ian ; that will be Hex 92. It could be fixed, I think, by piping through my SUBS $92='' /loc cit/. -- (c) John Stockton, Surrey, UK. ?@merlyn.demon.co.uk DOS 3.3, 6.20; WinXP. Web <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/> - FAQqish topics, acronyms & links. PAS EXE TXT ZIP via <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/programs/00index.htm> My DOS <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/batfiles.htm> - also batprogs.htm.
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X-Google-Thread: fb525,8aa51edb842c1d34 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb525,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!peer1.news.newnet.co.uk!213.210.46.30.MISMATCH!peernews.inweb.co.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!qmul!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!merlyn.demon.co.uk!jrs From: Dr J R Stockton <jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: demon.ip.support.pc Subject: Re: PCOak: "quoted-printable" - aaaargh! Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:59:40 +0100 Organization: Home Lines: 22 Message-ID: <c$UO9dDsszpGFwaJ@invalid.uk.co.demon.merlyn.invalid> References: <20070724.1803.212079snz@lyons.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: Dr J R Stockton <reply0730@merlyn.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: merlyn.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1185366378 14607 158.152.233.145 (25 Jul 2007 12:26:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:26:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Turnpike/6.05-S (<hH6ExtSgcss5vA9u4+5bCnAvJ7>)