Hey mark!

 ml> maybe wordstar or similar from back in the CPM days...

Offhand I don't recall wordstar putting in 0x8d characters but that was 20-ish
years ago when I last looked at it.  Never did use it as I preferred QEdit back
 in those days.  It was teeny-tiny and easily fit onto a boot floppy which made
 it excellent for doing maintenence type activities on so-called PCs.  I am
almost positive QEdit used the DOS-think \r\n combination to terminate lines as
 I needed to strip out the \r's when porting text files to ye ol' Sparc
machines.  If you ever run across a message with 0x8d's I'd like to see a copy
of it as they stick out like sore thumbs in vim.  Anyhow I noticed one of the
paths stripped out the 0x8d I sent yesterday.  Care to guess which path?  ;-)

That's my story and I am sticking to it.

Life is good,
Maurice

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