Mike,
Thanks for the helpful info.  Can you be more specific about what
characters are causing the =20 and other = strings?  Generally, I do my
final cleanup of text files with the WordPerfect program editor rather
than a word processor.  It generally has not produced the =20 problem for
me, but did so recently .  I don't know what I did that was different.

A specific question I have is whether a text file needs to be converted to
line feeds only rather than carriage return/line feed pairs at the ends of
lines before importing into a Pine message.

Regards,
Jamal



On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Mike Gravitt (NOTE NEW ADDRESS!) wrote:

> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 11:18:56 -0400
> From: "Mike Gravitt (NOTE NEW ADDRESS!)" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: The "=20" format problem
>
> The solution comes in the way the text file is saved before it is
> transported to unix and uploaded.  For example, in Microsoft Word, there are
> four types of text files: Text Only, Text Only with Line Breaks, MS-DOS
> Text, and MS-DOS with Line Breaks.  The format to save files in is the Text
> Only.  This will eliminate the =20 line break identifiier. Note: some word
> processors call the Delimited text.  So, Jamal, pull your documents up in a
> word processor, save as text only, then FTP to your unix for uploading in
> pine.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -Mike
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> From: Kelly Ford <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Friday, October 09, 1998 9:27 AM
> Subject: Re: The "=20" format problem
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> >I don't have a hard and fast answer on this.  What I have noticed is that
> >when I cut and paste from a Windows word processor like Word into Eudora,
> >the problem shows up.  Repeating the same procedure but using Microsoft
> >Outlook as the email program eliminates the problem.
> >
> >I wonder if it has something to do with carriage return and line feed
> >characters either being present or absent from the source document?
> >
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