Whoops! Yes, a CRLF in QP encoding without a preceding equal sign is a hard line break.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <ASSEMBLER-LIST@listserv.uga.edu> on behalf of Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 11:44 AM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@listserv.uga.edu Subject: Re: Testing In your second paragraph is the second "soft" supposed to be "hard"? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 8:31 AM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Testing Okay, let me cover some basics. An e-mail messages is a sequences of lines terminated in CRLF; the client and server software is permitted to replace the two terminating characters with whatever is appropriate for the OS. A MIME part with QP (bletch!) encoding uses =CRLF for a soft break; that is, it does not represent CRLF in the unencoded text. A CRLF not preceded by an equal sign is a soft break; it represents a CRLF in the unencoded text. A message with format=flowed in the Content-Transfer-Encoding header field uses SP CR LF for a soft break and a CRLF not preceded by a space for a hard break. Note that the last two cases are both MIME. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <ASSEMBLER-LIST@listserv.uga.edu> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <00000014e0e4a59b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2018 1:11 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@listserv.uga.edu Subject: Re: Testing On 2018-07-20, at 10:26:15, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Without format=flowed there is only CR[1], not soft CR and hard CR. > Are there, then, 3 different things? Explain. How do you classify auoted-printable's "=<CR>"? > [1] Well, really CRLF or, in *ix, just LF, or on a really old Mac just CR. > Or, on z/OS, CRNL or NL. Or, in HTML, the much-misunderstood <BR>. -- gil
