IBM-MAIN works with plain text, no RTF and certainly not HTML > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Joseph Reichman > Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2021 11:07 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: formatting help > > Have a visita 3270 > > When I originally responded to Peter Relson > I noticed in outlook sent it was a big jumble > > I then cut then entire response and just hit <enter> to break the lines > > When done I did a sent it > > But then I noticed once again it was jumbled > > This time I did the same from outlook cookies the text from sent folder > without rtf format still came out one big line when I looked in the sent > folder > > > > > > On Oct 31, 2021, at 1:27 PM, Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc- > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 11:58:04 -0400, Joseph Reichman wrote: > > > >> I think it ways that Binyamin and Peter Relson asked to see what I was > doing so I cut and pasted my code from Sysprint > >> > > "cut and pasted my code from Sysprint " leaves a lot unsaid. How did you > "cut" and > > how did you "paste"? What are all the tools you used? > > > >> I use outlook and the format text didn’t have RTF > >> > > An excerpt from your headers is: > > > >> MIME-Version: 1.0 > >> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 16.0 > >> Thread-Index: AdfOZnzbf0UucJTfS06mk9+aB7qtaA== > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> > >> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main > >> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2021 11:06:54 -0400650 $ > > > > In the raw text of your message, every record ends with " =", Q-P's > > indication of a continued line. So your entire message, both original > > and quoted text represents a single enormous line. > > > > Another of your messages has: > > > >> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 16.0 > >> Thread-Index: AdfOa8yR/aaoN9VdTUahA7hMeq+OUg== > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> > >> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main > >> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2021 11:31:50 -0400 > >> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM- > [email protected]> > >> Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM- > [email protected]> > >> From: Joseph Reichman <[email protected]> > >> Subject: formatting help > > > > And there is no formatting problem. What did you do differently in that > one? > > > > > __________________________________________________________ > _ > >>>> On Oct 31, 2021, at 11:44 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >>>> > >>>> For widest coverage, don't use RTF or HTML; write straight text, with > blank lines between paragraphs. Also, use spaces rather than tabs. If you use > anything beyond ASCII, set the character set to UTF-8 unless you are using > software that doesn't generate appropriate CT and CTE header fields. Use > format=flowed if your e-mail client supports it. > >>>> > > +1 > > Simpler is better. > > > > If you use a desktop file as a waystation, can you view or post a hex dump > > of a few lines of it? > > > > -- gil > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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