Subject: Those dang carriage returns >

From: Simba <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 15:31:13 -0500

Why is it that when I write a letter or read a file into Pine, the word 
wrap functions perfectly; similarly if I export a letter to the main 
directory and open it with the apparently identical editor Pico.

*But* if I send that same message to my PC over the telephone line, even 
if I strip out the unix end--of-line characters or commands, every line 
still ends in a "hard" carriage return, which shows up on my screen as >

To turn those hard carriage returns into soft ones, so that I can 
manipulate the file with my word processor, I have to go through each 
paragraph and use a wp command to do so. (The wp is WordStar, and the 
command is ctrl-6.)

Any way to work around this problem?

Once again I say that the problem is not unix-to-dos; I have that problem 
fixed.

            - Dan      <[email-masked]>

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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 23 Dec 94 13:58:24 GMT

>still ends in a "hard" carriage return, which shows up on my screen as >

What are you seeing this with?

 >paragraph and use a wp command to do so. (The wp is WordStar, and the 

ASCII, which is the normal format for email, has no conception of "soft"
CR's.  In fact you have to have hard ones there for most browsers to work.
Some wp's have the ability to load an ascii file, converting CR's to nothing
or to soft CR's.

 >Any way to work around this problem?

Get a conversion/import utility, but I know of none.

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