[Wylug-help] Email line wrapping question

[Geoff Richards]

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On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 04:42:42PM +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 16:32, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> > Somewhere between the data generator and my receiving it, it is being
> > line wrapped, with the inserted newlines marked by a "=", and with the
> > real newlines marked with a "=20=".
> >
> > Is this a standard way of doing it? Does this method of doing it have
> > a name or specification?
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> "Quoted Printable" (or QP) encoding

In the spirit of "it compiles, so ship it", here is a crufty Perl
program I wrote yesterday to decode some QP.  It is known to work
on at least one message :-)  But I didn't refer to the RFC, so it
is probably wrong.

   qef

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