Re: uniqcomp.pm - Working for others?

[John junja@xxxxxxxx]

Robert Holmgren wrote:
> What's going on?


I don't know which mailers people are using and
I'm aware that this problem isn't the same as the
one you mention, but Thunderbird regularly gives
problems when > quoting characters fall at the
start or end of a line of code. On screen, it
replaces them with the coloured vertical bars it
uses for quoting text and when one copies and
pastes that code, odd things happen.

I've searched for an example and this may be one:

in your clip, Robert, which starts:
{{;5translate}} Translate any old$ in S/G
50[In/Out] into new

the bottom 2 lines after copying and pasting from
TB into a text editor come out as:

<}SX57,@UPR({<}IS57{>}){>}{<}EI{>}{<}SX50,{<}IS58{>}+{<}IS57{

> > }+{<}IS60{>}{>}{<}EI{>}{<}LBC{>}{002}[cr|lf][cr|lf]


i.e. there's a spurious blank line followed by a
line which starts with 2 `>' (if TB doesn't mangle
it a bit more in the sending).

Here presumably it's the angle brackets causing
the problem.

John




> Everybody:
>
> Use the ZIP! It works great. I don't know

what's going on with our Email...
> but it's something wierd. I just told Russ

privately how to correct his Email
> version... I can't trust that everybody has

the exact same errors, but for
> what it's worth, he has:
>
> one instance of
>  left_guillemetEI{> }
> change that to
>  left_guillemetEIright_guillemet -- a true

≪EI≫ EndIf!
> and one instance of
>  MD>DN
> change that to
>  MDDN
> -- a true ≪MDDN≫ DeleteNormal MoDe!
>
> If that's what you have too, then make those

two changes, SAve it, & RUN it
> against your files. Otherwise use the copy in

the ZIP from 8 Nov.
> But I'm truly mystified: again I decoded my

Whoops msg two different ways: by
> saving the msg as a file, CAlling the file and

DECODEing that; and by copying
> and pasting from the msg into XyWrite, and

DECODEing. Both ways, perfect.
> Then I just pasted it from XySearch:

http://p70-144.acedsl.com/xywrite/2005/msg01623.htm
> Perfect! (Would somebody else please try that?

 When you do, *compare* your
> result to copy in the ZIPfile.)