Subj : CRLF To : Martin Foster From : Carlos Navarro Date : Fri Mar 18 2022 21:10:11 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 Looks like the document is no longer valid.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 --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20180707 * Origin: Costa Blanca, Spain (2:341/234.1) .