Re: Apple II ADA?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <P4-dnVpkc_r3bZ_YnZ2dnUVZ_sKdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
 
> schmidtd wrote:
>> Paul Schlyter wrote:
>> 
>>>Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>For programming the Gs I would recommend The MPW IIgs Collection
>>>>(http://store.syndicomm.com/product_info.php?products_id=3D166) You need =
>>>>a
>>>>mac with classic to use it tho..
>>>
>>>Surfing there yielded a "Product not found!" message.....  :-/
>>>Please check your links before posting them....
>> 
>> 
>> Worked for me just fine.  <shrug>
> 
> On Thunderbird, too, what follows product_id is =3D166.  I note
> that product_id=166 is the desired link, so something did a
> conversion of the "=" to a hex 3D character.
> 
> -michael
 
That's the quite common quoted-printable encoding: characters outside
ASCII are encoded as the "=" sign, followed by two hex digit giving
the character code.  Of course the "=" sign itself must be encoded
as well.  ASCII characters could be encoded too, but that's not the
norm.  Example:  "ABCD" in quoted-printable could be: "=41=42=43=44"
 
So your newsreader posts not in plain ACII, but in quoted-printable,
which one of my newsreaders does not decode.
 
That's why Usenet has the rule:  please post in ASCII.  Not in Base64,
not in QP, but in plain ASCII.  Check your Newsreader and adjust it
if necessary.
 
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