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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 18 Oct 1996.
Re: Question about control codes

Re: Question about control codes

On 16 Oct 1996, Joel Garry wrote:

>  "M> From: "J. Melusky" <wha...@u.washington.edu>
> 
>  "M> On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Syed Mohammad Ali Tahir wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Are there any mail programs out there that don't 
> > choke on escape codes and
> > control codes when mailing out stuff. My a/c uses 
> > sendmail through ELM and
> > PINE which freaks out every time a message with escape codes is mailed. 
> > Any info would be appreciated. Also if there are 
> > programs that work is it
> > possible to download them from somewhere.
> 
> Unix systems have a program called uuencode, which makes the file have
> only 7 bit coding, to be safe over unknown networks.  Look around, I'm
> sure I've seen it for PC's in various toolkits.  Or run linux.  The
> companion program is, of course, uudecode.

Do a net search for Unix under "Dos" in shareware.com

There's quite a few things there that might be of help.

Disclaimer & Stuff: I don't work for anyone registered with shareware.com
or for shareware.com themselves, so anything that goes wrong isn't my
fault OK? :)

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