Date:         Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:55:20 EST
From: another shade of purple <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: TECH: Uploading problems

Did some experimenting with saving under word.

"with line breaks" seems to be the phrase meaning do you want me to
put carriage returns in or not.  If you save in one of the modes
without line breaks, lines are too long, and you'll end up having
to reformat them somewhere.

Text only gives quotes, apostrophes, elipsis mark, and others using
the high order bit (eight-bit characters).  This (when run through a
mailer that thinks it knows what to do with such) will produce =89,
=93, and the other odd numbers (ISO-8859-1, quoted-printable, to
invoke the magic jargon).

MSDOS text replaces the high-order stuff with ordinary ASCII.

Incidentally, the help file seems to have the explanations of these
two reversed (just for confusion's sake, I'm sure).

Bottom Line: Use MSDOS Text with Line Breaks.  It will work better.

tink

This is what text with line breaks gives me: (=20, funky numbers in
place of quotes, and all that other stuff--this was sent using my
normal procedure through Eudora, just the save in word was different):

=93What is this?=94 she said, with a wink and a grin.  And the=20
wee little man answered=85=94I don=92t really know for sure!=94

What d=92d this funky thing do?

        Not nearly as much as this did.
But then, I=92m not sure what anything does.

This is what the same text, saved as MSDOS with line breaks and sent
through Eudora, gave (much improved!):

"What is this?" she said, with a wink and a grin.  And the
wee little man answered."I don't really know for sure!"

What d'd this funky thing do?

        Not nearly as much as this did.
But then, I'm not sure what anything does.