Text 830, 72 rader
Skriven 2007-11-01 12:20:25 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
    Kommentar till text 761 av Jason Vierik (694.amateurr)
Ärende: Line spacing
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 JV>   Re: Line spacing
 JV>   By: Holger Granholm to Jason Vierik on Tue Oct 23 2007 12:23 pm 

 > Why is the quoted message from Tom double spaced when it comes back

 > from you?  The original text didn't have empty lines in the text!



 JV> I have no idea.  Youre the only one with that issue.  Something on
 JV> your end 

 JV> maybe?

nope, he's not the only one seeing the issue... if it isn't something on your
end, it is something in the middle... i have posted once or twice about this in
other echos and just never carried on with a followup...

i figured it like this... you were notified of a situation and you should bring
it up the the maintainer of your software package and that you guys would do
the testing and investigating on your end...

i highly suspect something in SBBS or in other processing software you are
using to get the messages packed out... again, if it isn't something on your
system, then it is something in the middle between us...

here's a HEX dump of the above quoted section from the RAW PKT file... i've
hilited the actual problem...


0001A0  3A 32 33 20 70 6D 0D 0D 20 3E 20 57 68 79 20 69  :23 pm.. > Why i
                          ^^ ^^
0001B0  73 20 74 68 65 20 71 75 6F 74 65 64 20 6D 65 73  s the quoted mes
0001C0  73 61 67 65 20 66 72 6F 6D 20 54 6F 6D 20 64 6F  sage from Tom do
0001D0  75 62 6C 65 20 73 70 61 63 65 64 20 77 68 65 6E  uble spaced when
0001E0  20 69 74 20 63 6F 6D 65 73 20 62 61 63 6B 0D 0D   it comes back..
                                                  ^^ ^^
0001F0  20 3E 20 66 72 6F 6D 20 79 6F 75 3F 20 20 54 68   > from you?  Th
000200  65 20 6F 72 69 67 69 6E 61 6C 20 74 65 78 74 20  e original text
000210  64 69 64 6E 27 74 20 68 61 76 65 20 65 6D 70 74  didn't have empt
000220  79 20 6C 69 6E 65 73 20 69 6E 20 74 68 65 20 74  y lines in the t
000230  65 78 74 21 0D 0D 0D 0D 49 20 68 61 76 65 20 6E  ext!....I have n
                    ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
000240  6F 20 69 64 65 61 2E 20 20 59 6F 75 72 65 20 74  o idea.  Youre t
000250  68 65 20 6F 6E 6C 79 20 6F 6E 65 20 77 69 74 68  he only one with
000260  20 74 68 61 74 20 69 73 73 75 65 2E 20 20 53 6F   that issue.  So
000270  6D 65 74 68 69 6E 67 20 6F 6E 20 79 6F 75 72 20  mething on your
000280  65 6E 64 0D 0D 6D 61 79 62 65 3F 0D 0D 0D 0D 20  end..maybe?....
                                         ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ 

the above shows that your messages contain only CRs (hex 0d) and no LFs (hex
0a)... the doublespacing comes from there being two CRs each time... in the
plain text, they are replaced by a '.' (period) each as i cannot post the
musical note that is actually the character...

FWIW: there doesn't have to be any linebreaks in a message as today's software
should automatically wordwrap based on the local settings... i know i hate
reading forced wraps at 70 on my 132 column screen :?

in any case, something is doubling the CRs for some reason... i kinda wonder if
that section of code is actually trying to do a CRLF combination and a
copy'n'paste was missed being edited to have the LF in it... hell, it could
even be something as simple as using buggy software from *nix that has been
ported to your platform...

in any case, it needs to be brought to the maintainer's attention so it can be
fixed or an internal setting can be adjusted or whatever it takes to correct
the problem ;)

)\/(ark

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