In a message dated 02-02-27 12:09:05 EST,
Thomas Tabler wrote:

>  Dear List and Binky:
> 
>   For some unknown reason, many of my Arachne list mails do
>  end in this umlauted character.  This has been going on for some time
>  and I cannot readily determine it's cause.   I assure you, the client
>  is Insight in Arachne.  I have not written any messages to the List
>  with the newest Arachne and it's Insight, so I cannot comment on that
>  "bug" if there is one.  I think the problem may be related to my
>  computer here, which has one small sector of the hard drive with
>  a bad cluster.  Perhaps that is the reason the RAM writes this
>  odd character in DOS.  I really can't say.  I am not entirely sure
>  what keystrokes you used to duplicate this character, I would like to
>  know.

To generate y with umlaut in Arachne Insight, using US-ASCII for
outgoing mail:

Make sure your numlock is on.  Then hold down your alt key and
press 0255 on the numeric keypad. (do not use the numbers below
your f-keys)

Binky

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