[Wylug-help] Email line wrapping question

Jim Jackson jj at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Mon, 14 Apr 2003 14:22:47 +0100 (BST)


On 10 Apr 2003, 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?
>
> "Quoted Printable" (or QP) encoding

It's a good job they didn't call it "Quoted Readable", that'ed be an
oxymoron! I'm surprized that pine doesn't handle it by default.

Jim