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    From Martin Foster@2:310/31.3 to August Abolins on Sun Jul 12 09:02:00 2020
    Hello August!

    *** Saturday 11.07.20 at 11:03, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

    [snip]
    Yep, that's exactly what's happened because where *incoming* Fido
    messages are concerened, I've finally realised that OpenXP uses its own prorietary kludges. Couple of examples .....

    --------- --------
    | FTS-5003 | OpenXP |
    --------- --------
    CHRS --> X-XP-Charset
    TZUTC --> EDA

    Oooops, correction .....

    --------- --------
    | FTS-5003 | OpenXP |
    --------- --------
    CHRS --> X-XP-Charset

    --------- --------
    | FTS-4008 | OpenXP |
    --------- --------
    TZUTC --> EDA

    Regards,
    Martin

    --- OpenXP 5.0.45
    * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)
  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Martin Foster on Sun Jul 12 16:07:00 2020
    Hello Martin!

    ** On Sunday 12.07.20 - 09:02, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

    Yep, that's exactly what's happened because where *incoming* Fido
    messages are concerened, I've finally realised that OpenXP uses its own
    prorietary kludges. Couple of examples .....

    --------- --------
    | FTS-5003 | OpenXP |
    --------- --------
    CHRS --> X-XP-Charset

    --------- --------
    | FTS-4008 | OpenXP |
    --------- --------
    TZUTC --> EDA


    WHAAAT? You've only noticed that now after all these years? LOL

    I guess you never used Ctl-O very much. <g>

    Even Thunderbird has its own little way of representing those things.

    But what I *do* find unusual is OXP's insistance of changing incoming
    CP437 to IBM437. If it has something to do with built-in hardcoded
    codepage data in OXP, then maybe that make sense.


    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.45
    * Origin: ----------Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate.---------- (2:221/1.58)
  • From Martin Foster@2:310/31.3 to August Abolins on Mon Jul 13 10:58:00 2020
    Hello August!

    *** Sunday 12.07.20 at 16:07, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

    Yep, that's exactly what's happened because where *incoming* Fido
    messages are concerened, I've finally realised that OpenXP uses its own
    prorietary kludges. Couple of examples .....

    --------- --------
    | FTS-5003 | OpenXP |
    --------- --------
    CHRS --> X-XP-Charset

    --------- --------
    | FTS-4008 | OpenXP |
    --------- --------
    TZUTC --> EDA

    WHAAAT? You've only noticed that now after all these years? LOL

    Oh, I'd noticed it a looooooooong time ago but I hadn't realised until
    just recently that OpenXP changes kludges on *incoming* FTN messages to
    its own proprietery kludges.

    I guess you never used Ctl-O very much. <g>

    I do use it but I've never found it particularly useful :(

    Regards,
    Martin

    --- OpenXP 5.0.45
    * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)
  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Martin Foster on Mon Jul 13 09:00:00 2020
    Hello Martin!

    ** On Monday 13.07.20 - 10:58, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

    CHRS --> X-XP-Charset
    TZUTC --> EDA

    WHAAAT? You've only noticed that now after all these years? LOL

    Oh, I'd noticed it a looooooooong time ago but I hadn't realised until just recently that OpenXP changes kludges on *incoming* FTN messages to its own proprietery kludges.

    :) Where did you think that the typical fido kluges went to? ;)



    I guess you never used Ctl-O very much. <g>

    I do use it but I've never found it particularly useful :(

    Before I discovered that I could modify the display of the message headers
    in the reading pane, I flipped to Ctl-O to read the info + other details.

    I think MSGID --> MID was the tipoff for me. But was a l-o-n-g time ago
    now.


    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.45
    * Origin: ----------Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate.---------- (2:221/1.58)