[softwarelist] Re: Ovation Pro Windows 2.90

In message <c9263aff4d.Alan.Adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:

> In message <cc0632ff4d.chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> 
> > In message <005201c63abd$c6d5fb20$90da69d5@xp>
> >           "Arthur Lacey" <tedell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >=20
> > >=20
> > > From: "Tim Powys-Lybbe" <tim@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >  wrote:
> > >> But think of the expense here in (a) buying full versions of XP and
> > >> then (b) buying manuals to tell me what on earth it was doing.  Not =
> to
> > >> mention the wasted time on this group answering questions about "how=
>  do
> > >> you do this?".
> > >=20
> > > My advice would be to wait for the 64 bit version of Windows due for =
> release
> > > later in the year.  Of course you might need to get a new PC as well.=
>  :-)
> >=20
> > 64bit version of XP is already out and has been for several months! I=20
> > assume you mean Vista which is still in beta and well behind schedule=20
> > at the moment. Rumour has it a lot of software could require an update =
> 
> > to work on vista.....
> >=20
> >=20
> 
> With any new version of Windows it is a good idea to wait until Service P=
> ack
> 1 is issued. (Which in one recent case was about the same tme as the main=
> 
> launch). There will be bugs, and SP1 addresses the more obvious/easily fo=
> und
> ones.
> 
> XP is good, stable, reasonably user-friendly. If you change the user
> interface to "classic", it looks and works a lot as you would expect. I
> agree about the expense though - I think the upgrade version is about =A3=
> 75,
> and you do seriously need to check the hardware requirements - 128M memor=
> y
> minimum, 256M strongly recommended, plenty of disk space - it will instal=
> l
> into 2GB but by the time Office is in there as well, you have run out. I
> would suggest minumum processor speed about 1G - it will work with less, =
> but
> you might not want to.
> 
> The good news is that every item of hardware you might consider is
> supported, and most will just plug in and go - only things released in ab=
> out
> the last two years need drivers, and they can all be downloaded.
> 
> You do need to make sure you install SP2, a good firewall (I'd recommend =
> the
> free Zone Alarm), anti-virus (AVG free edition from free.grisoft.com) and=
> 
> anti-spyware (microsoft beta is good).
> 
> --=20
> Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
> alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.nckc.org.uk/
> 
> 
> 

Now I've just noticed that this message also has the =xx encoding.

This is called Quoted-Printable encoding. Investigation of the mail headers
shows:

That my original message was sent out with

User-Agent: Messenger-Pro/2.62 (MsgServe/2.05) (RISC-OS/4.02)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

It was retransmitted by the list as

Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

As a result the receiving system displays the encoding instead of making use
of it.

Now I'm not sure why Messenger Pro is using Quoted-Printable - I expected
Base-64, which has become the standard form of Mime-encoding. But changing
the encoding definition without also translating the encoding itself it just
plain wrong.


-- 
Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.nckc.org.uk/

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