On 2019 Apr 07 17:02:24, you wrote to me:

 ml>> the problem is confirmed... one of the PKTs has ^M characters which
 ml>> should not be there...

 SD> That sounds like a problem Telegard had for a long time...something
 SD> having to do with soft CRs and different codepages.

are you thinking of the "í" (lower case i with the right leaning accent on
top)? alt-161, 0xA1 in the CP437 table? some systems may not display the
character after it passes through intermediate systems... IIRC, it was used
for, as you say, soft carriage returns and i think mainly with QWK stuff...
some tossers do have an option to leave the "í" alone and not convert it or act
 on it...

 SD> That was a very long time ago now though.

it was 

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