No, I suspect you're not doing anything wrong.

If your Listserv is running on Unix, you'll get the logfile back in
Unix format, in which lines are terminated by a linefeed without an
accompanying carriage return.  DOS and Windows based software expects
lines to be terminated by a carriage return/line feed sequence and
can display these Unix-formatted files very bizzarely.

If your lines are going both down the page and successively way off
to the right, that is definitely what is happening.  You need a
Windows program that can read files formatted in Unix format and
convert them to DOS/Windows format.

When you FTP between systems using ASCII format, FTP automatically
does this kind of conversion between systems.  But an E-mail
attachment is sent in the format of the originating system.

Dennis

On Fri, 31 May 2002, Eva Kalman wrote:

> When I try F=MIME/Appl , Listserv seems to encode/send a
> logfile without carriage returns.   It is an attachment, but
> not a pleasant one.   Using F=MIME/text doesn't strip the
> carriage returns but then it's embedded in the mail and
> not an attached file.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?   (using Netscape on Windows and Solaris?)
>
> Eva
>
> On Fri, 31 May 2002 12:13:56 +1000, Michael Shannon
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >>
> >> When I use the standard GET command to retrieve an archive it
> >> is returned to me as e-mail. What parameters do I have to use
> >> to have the archive returned to me as an attached file?
> >>
> >
> >GET listname filename (F=format
> >
> >Supported formats are: Netdata, Card, Disk, Punch, LPunch, UUencode,
> >XXencode, VMSdump, MIME/text, MIME/Appl, Mail.  In practice I find that
> >MIME/Appl works best if you want it attached (and assuming your mail client
> >supports MIME).
> >
> >See http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/owner/appenda.html#6.1.4 for further
> >information.
> >
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> >
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