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 Message 2738 
 Carlos Navarro to Martin Foster 
 CRLF 
 18 Mar 22 21:10:11 
 
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MSGID: 2:341/234.1 6234e72c
REPLY: 2:310/31.3@fidonet fa6b5298
14 Mar 2022 11:21, you wrote to me:

 MF> Here's the *full* paragraph to which you refer:
 MF> ---------- 8< ----------
 MF>   The  and soft  characters (character codes 10 and 141
 MF>   respectively) should not be used within a control pragraph. If they
 MF>   are, they should be disregarded by any program processing such a
 MF>   message or copies thereof.
 MF> ---------- 8< ----------

Yes, programs should ignore it. But better not to have LFs there, if possible.
They serve no purpose anyway.

 MF> And then there's this:
 MF> **********************************************************************
 MF> FTSC                             FIDONET TECHNICAL STANDARDS COMMITTEE
 MF> **********************************************************************

 MF> Publication:    FTS-4000
 MF> Revision:       1
 MF> Title:          CONTROL PARAGRAPHS
 MF> Author(s):      FTSC

 MF> Revision Date:  1 October 2000
 MF> Expiry Date:    1 October 2002
 MF> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 MF> Looks like the document is no longer valid.

FTS-4000 is listed in ftsc.org/docs - Standards section. I see no replacement
for it, so I guess it's just that it hasn't been updated. (I may ask about
this in FTSC_PUBLIC.)

 CN>> For better compatibility with all FTN software, I suggest that
 CN>> OpenXP is changed so that it strips LF characters (#10) and
 CN>> leaves only CR (#13) when it generates PKTs - if not in all the
 CN>> body text, at least in the  kludge lines.

 MF> The only person who could address your suggestion would be the
 MF> developer  but he doesn't monitor this echo :((

Is the developer (gsandner) in Fidonet? If not, I suppose that the place to
make suggestions is the SF repo.

Carlos

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