Subject: Re: How do I stop Pine from justifing ASCII uploads?

From: [email-masked] (Dxx-Richard_T_Myers(0)0)
Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 17:47:21 GMT

Chip Old ([email-masked]) wrote:
: On 2 Jul 1995, DANIEL PRINCE wrote:
: If that doesn't work, the trick is to make your "blank" lines actually
: non-blank.  Put a space character or two on each blank line.  This will
: still appear to be a blank line to the reader, but your computer will
: treat it as a non-blank line.  Most telecomm software will send such
: lines unmodified.  If that doesn't work, then put an unobtrusive character
: (like a period) on each "blank" line. 

This may be a bad idea. Some mailer software treats a single period
on a line as end of message. I have sent mail to myself from pine
across the internet to my account that uses (ugh!) Microsoft Mail.
A period in the first position in one of these messages cut off the
rest of the message at that point.

Richard Myers
Lucent Technologies
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