On 06 Feb 2026, finglonger said the following...

A shot of what the messages look like now in Mystic A49:

http://cfbbs.net/~alex/tldr-a.png
http://cfbbs.net/~alex/tldr-b.png

i'd say that's a huge improvement from what it used to look like..

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A shot of what the messages look like now in Mystic A49:

Hmmm... those posts look ok in my old DOS QWK readers. Looks like maybe
Mystic is not "honoring" the line feed or line wrapping used.

Are these the only DOVE QWK messages you are seeing this with?

If not, you might check your QWK settings on VERT. There is a setting
related to line wrap you might need to change.

If these are the only messages that is happeing to, I suspect that your
setting there is correct and it is something else.


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Re: Re: Opus 4.6 ¨, OpenAI
By: finglonger to TLDR on Fri Feb 06 2026 08:46 pm

A shot of what the messages look like now in Mystic A49:

I don't know what it looks like on your end (copy/paste doesn't always actually reproduce for others what you're seeing), but there was text in there that looked like "garbage":

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and indicates to me that you need to turn off UTF-8 support in your QWK packets since Mystic doesn't support it. It's an option on the QWK config menu on Vertrauen.
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