On 5/27/04 11:10 AM chris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. Hi Chris- The rectangluar figure was not from an AOL email address but from a college which showed the persons name as recipient and then in the address field it showed @perdue.edu so that does not look like AOL to me.
regards, doug >>There is a little rectangluar symbol preceding each line of the quote. I >>have seen this before and wondered if it was something the other email >>prog. is inserting as a quotation preference which will not work with >>Mac. I can reproduce this symbol by holding down simulataneously the >>Option and any F5-F9 key. And I if put it in this email to you it will >>not Send. What does this do I wonder? > >That rectangle is the Mac's way of displaying a non printable character. >Lots and Lots of characters will cause that rectangle to appear. > >However, when seen consistantly at the start of every line of text like >you describe, its a pretty safe bet it is in place of a Line Feed >character. Since you were running into a problem with line feed >characters, then its an even safer bet those rectangles were in fact line >feeds and were the source of your problem. > >Were you per chance quoting an AOL email? AOL used to put those >characters into email all the time. > >-chris ><http://www.mythtech.net> > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
