Subj : Re: Test message: High ASCII
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Nigel Reed
Date : Mon Nov 19 2018 21:02:46

Daryl wrote:
D>   Saw it fine here with OLX (Offline Express). But, some programs (i.e.
D> MultiMail and Notepad for Windows) won't let you use the high ascii
D> characters.

We're trying to debug an issue where I was getting some bad packets but only
via ILink. We thought it was the high ascii characters but that doesn't seem
to be the case and the last bad packet that I had contained only messages
from Nancy. Rob (Digitalman) looked at the packet and there was a null (^@)
value between the packet terminating ^M^M characters so rather than that it
looked like ^M^@^M. I removed the null and saved the file and it processed
correctly, so really no idea where that came fine.

btw, anyone using vi or vim to edit a packet on a linux system, launch with
-b or use :set binary to set to binary mode then :set noeol 
failure to do that and vi will tag a 0x0A on the end and also corrupt the
packet :)

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