Re: Tips on viewing Ascii Animations

Colin Douthwaite wrote:

> Lester5374 <les...@aol.com> wrote:
> >     Hmmm, that's odd, not that it should have decoded this message (which it
> >shouldn't have), but I see why AOL sucks so much with decoding files. Half of
> >your first uue was underlined and went on like that through the rest of the
> >message.
>
> >>ENC.COM.B&F=
> >>%00%@@PZ-rm-rm-L#P_R^N15RX-qn-qnP-@!PY-!p-!`-!0P]=
> >>X-b!P_WR^!5GG!5GG!5GG!5GG!5_RX-`K5pPP^15GG15GG15GG15GG-~!5Z>#P^15Q_t#u!
> >>COMT_is_copyright_Alex_Pruss.
> >>RX3FcEE<Zt+=
> >>t"-AA
> >>Good-dayR^!5P^15Gu'Hi,Howdy??BJtKM
> >>MPOAHAHFNIOHDGALMDJLAOOCCPOKFHJDLIHPPFHFMKMDBCEH>FDMCCCCHHPMDAEDHDP
> >>KIAOMKMCCCANMNANANANMNANANKKMKMCCCANMNANANANM>NANANKKMKMCCCANMNANAN
> >>ANMNANANKKLOLMILPPMENMBCHFOLJDCAJLACAADPEKPFPPHO>LIPMOFLCOMBEBNJOPL
> >>S&$ig(Apuu0000000490<
> >>z1\9F(4=>$??*+;<=D;*;W>>=W>-5$??>$??*+;<=D;*;W>>=W>->:?:>2?*=%=?*
> >>zO;=?3=;-(3=;V*==2?*;==?=&;-*D;@
>
> >     It started right after that last @. I wonder if there is some kind of code
> >that's kicking in that AOL is reading? Oh well, thanks for the info.
>
> Here is a repeat ( uuencoded...HeHeHe ) in case your copy got munged
> somewhere along the way but I suspect, as you do, that the sequence
> following ;-*D;@ must have triggered a macro or the command to
> uudecode in your AOL set-up. Similarly some sequence must have
> triggered the Underlining of the UUE. I guess that even pure ASCII
> sequences can act as control codes if the software is written that
> way.  *8-(
>
> So there you go...see what AOL does to that!
>
> Bye,

 the underlining was due to the fact that there was a piece of text in the file
that the AOL-newsreader interpreted as HTML ... it was <U> check it in the original
post

Greetz,

Maarten

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