Re: VMS Mail translates incoming tilde character into a dollar sign.

On Mar 14, 7:33 am, Robert Deininger <rdeinin...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
In article <47da5945$0$25044$607ed...@xxxxxx>,
 VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

In article <frc9kl$hu...@xxxxxxxx>, Fred Bach <b...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear comp.os.vms,
:
   VMS Mail translates tilde characters ("~") in the body of
   the mail, into dollar sign characters for incoming mail.

Yikes. Thanks for the heads up.

In 2005, the filter was modified to add "}", "~", and some other
characters to the set that is replaced with "$" on display.  

What were they thinking? Were they thinking ?
Honestly, since when did a lone twiddle turn evil !?

The stated
reason was that some terminal emulators (which ones not specified) were
finding escape sequences when "}" was used in certain sequences.

And VMS bows to that?! And does not bother to indicate which
emulator?!
:-(.



In 2006, the filtering was changed again.  If logical name MAIL$FILTER
is defined to "1", the old filtering is restored w.r.t. "}" and "~".  It
has to be a process logical name, and it has to have value "1":
 $ DEFINE/PROCESS MAIL$FILTER 1

They broke it. The original behavious was correct.
The default should be no extra filter.

It is 'nice' that OpenVMS is willing to accomadate a broken terminal
emulator through logical for those bother by that, but that should be
optional.

The logical name works in V8.3-1H1 (Integrity only).

The lows HP will stoop to force people over to integrity.

!!!!????

Did you forget to type a smiley or something?

Honestly Brian...

Anyway, just picking up an old MAIL.EXE UI should fix this right?

fwiw,
Hein.

.

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