TID: FMail-lnx64 2.3.0.1-B20240319
RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes
TZUTC: 0100
CHRS: CP850 2
PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20240306
MSGID: 2:280/464 6607e528
REPLY: 1:154/10 66074f70
Hi Nicholas,

On 2024-03-29 18:32:00, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> And the discussion to get my terminals right for golded, continued
 WvV>> until yesterday! ;-) But I now seem to have it as good as it can
 WvV>> get.

 NB> I've been keeping up. Glad you were able to get it all sorted!

 NB> You're still way luckier than most, if you have been able to use Golded
for
 NB> all those years without having to use translation tables. I thought
something
 NB> was weird when you told me that. :)

Most text in fido messages is just ascii. So if you're not bothered by the
occasional weird character, your fine! ;-)

 WvV>> So you need code around it for compatibility to use the old or new
 WvV>> field. But I don't find this a very important new feature.

 NB> Not a new feature, really. Just fixing an old one.

Does something that has been working like this for 30 years, without
complaints, really needs fixing?

 WvV>> The tearline is mostly used for version info of the generating
 WvV>> software, and fmail already handles that very well.

 NB> Some generating software uses much more space than FMail does when it
comes to
 NB> the tearline. What if one wants to put FMail's information in the TID
kludge,
 NB> instead, so the tearline can be used for the editor information?

FMail can be configured to just use the TID, so your editor can do what it
wants with the tearline.


Bye, Wilfred.

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