Victor S. Miller <VICTOR@YKTVMZ> says: # (I)... recall a suggestion I had made a while ago about how # mailers in bitnet should deal with lines of length > 80: ... any # line of length > 80 should be split up. The first character on # the second and succeeding lines should be a backspace. Since it # is impossible for text files to have that combination, It certainly is. It is explictly not allowed in RFC822. An RFC822 body is a sequence of 'texts'. Quoting from 822: ! 3.4.9. BACKSPACE CHARACTERS ! ! ASCII BS characters (Backspace, decimal 8) may be included in ! texts and quoted-strings to effect overstriking. However, any ! use of backspaces which effects an overstrike to the left of ! the beginning of the text or quoted-string is prohibited. ! ! August 13, 1982 - 15 - RFC #822 I understand this to mean that a backspace may not occur as the first character of a line of text. # Victor Michael