> The two methods most commonly used >by mail programs are QUOTED-PRINTABLE and BASE64. Yes. But ... >The quoted-printable method takes the all 8-bit characters and turns them >into and equal sign followed by the upper-case HEX code for the character. >These are generally in the range =AA to =FF. Obviously, if you start >using the = sign as a flag for a coding standard, you will have troble if >your text has actual = signs in them (such as a password=blahblah >specification). So the quoted-printable standard also translates the = >signs in the original text to =3D. The idea is that the mail program on >the receiving end will be MIME-compliant and will understand and decode >these things without you ever knowing. Right. So I encourage folks to avoid QP if possible. -- Rick Troth, BMC Software, Inc. <[log in to unmask]> <USNMNEWN@IBMMAIL> 2101 City West Blvd., Houston, Texas, USA, 77042 1-800-841-2031 * T H E B E S T L I T T L E S O F T W A R E H O U S E I N T E X A S * DMSINI1255T