X-Message-Number: 1557 Date: 06 Jan 1993 14:43:10 -0700 (MST) From: Subject: control characters in text To: everyone on the net, especially Allen Lopp and Scott Herman Re: ^Z's at the end of your messages Many people on the net, including me, like to print out hard copy of our email messages. I do this via a mainframe host computer that will terminate the printing job prematurely if the text to be printed contains "unprintable" characters such as control-Z (^Z). Several people on the net leave a string of ^Z's at the end of their messages necessitating special editing befor their email can be converted into hard copy. Please don't do this! When you press ^Z to terminate and send your email message, don't hold the keys down: only one ^Z is needed to send you message on its way. --Mark Voelker p.s. ^Z appears as $ on the screen [ Mark, I have good news. I just put a filter in my email handler to remove all control-Z characters from the incoming text. If you have noticed any other mischievous characters on CryoNet, just let me know and I'll program my filter to ^Zap them. - KQB ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1557