Subj : Re: Lunatics Unlea
To   : Cozmo
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jun 15 2022 03:49 pm

  Re: Re: Lunatics Unlea
  By: Cozmo to MRO on Wed Jun 15 2022 06:32 pm

 > The reason I used wordpad was becuse I was on my Window 10 computer and it
 > looked worse in Notepad. I can re-send it in Edit or Notepad++ if you like.

If you really want to know the contents of a file, use a hexadecimal dump utility/viewer, e.g.
E:\sbbs\src\sbbs3>hd e:\lunatics.ans
e:\lunatics.ans:
00000: 0D 0A 53 75 62 6A 20 3A - 20 5B 41 4E 53 49 5D 20   : ..Subj : [ANSI]
00010: 52 65 3A 20 4C 75 6E 61 - 74 69 63 73 20 55 6E 6C   : Re: Lunatics Unl
00020: 65 61 0D 0A 54 6F 20 20 - 20 3A 20 4D 52 4F 0D 0A   : ea..To   : MRO..
00030: 46 72 6F 6D 20 3A 20 43 - 6F 7A 6D 6F 20 28 4C 55   : From : Cozmo (LU
00040: 4E 29 0D 0A 44 61 74 65 - 20 3A 20 53 75 6E 20 4A   : N)..Date : Sun J
00050: 75 6E 20 31 32 20 32 30 - 32 32 20 30 39 3A 33 33   : un 12 2022 09:33
00060: 20 61 6D 20 55 54 43 0D - 0A 0D 0A 1B 5B 30 6D 1B   :  am UTC.....[0m.
00070: 5B 31 3B 31 48 1B 5B 42 - 1B 5B 31 44 1B 5B 42 1B   : [1;1H.[B.[1D.[B.
00080: 5B 31 44 1B 5B 39 43 1B - 5B 31 3B 33 30 6D DC 20   : [1D.[9C.[1;30m.
00090: DC 20 DC DC 20 DC DC DC - DC 20 DC 20 DC 20 DC DC   : . .. .... . . ..
000A0: DC DC 20 DC DC DC DC DC - DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC   : .. .............
000B0: DC DC DC DC DC 20 DC 0D - 0A 1B 5B 41 1B 5B 35 30   : ..... ....[A.[50
000C0: 43 DC DC DC DC DC DC 20 - DC DC 20 DC 20 DC DC DC   : C...... .. . ...
000D0: 20 DC 20 DC DC 20 DC 1B - 5B 42 1B 5B 37 32 44 1B   :  . .. ..[B.[72D.
000E0: 5B 37 43 DC DB 20 DC 20 - 20 20 DC 1B 5B 30 6D B1   : [7C.. .   ..[0m.
000F0: 20 20 20 1B 5B 31 3B 33 - 31 6D DC DC 20 20 DC DC   :    .[1;31m..  ..
00100: 20 20 20 0D 0A 1B 5B 41 - 1B 5B 32 38 43 1B 5B 30   :    ...[A.[28C.[0
00110: 3B 33 31 6D DC 20 1B 5B - 31 6D DC DC 1B 5B 30 3B   : ;31m. .[1m...[0;
00120: 33 31 6D DC DC DC 20 20 - 20 1B 5B 31 6D DC 1B 5B   : 31m...   .[1m..[
00130: 30 3B 33 31 6D DC DC DC - 20 1B 5B 31 6D DC 1B 5B   : 0;31m... .[1m..[
00140: 30 3B 33 31 6D DC DC DC - DC DC 20 1B 5B 31 6D DC   : 0;31m..... .[1m.
00150: 0D 0A 1B 5B 41 1B 5B 35 - 31 43 1B 5B 30 3B 33 31   : ...[A.[51C.[0;31
00160: 6D DC 20 20 20 1B 5B 31 - 6D DC DC 1B 5B 30 3B 33   : m.   .[1m...[0;3
00170: 31 6D DC 20 20 1B 5B 31 - 6D DC DC 1B 5B 30 3B 33   : 1m.  .[1m...[0;3
00180: 31 6D DC DC 20 1B 5B 30 - 6D B1 20 20 1B 5B 31 3B   : 1m.. .[0m.  .[1;
00190: 33 30 6D DC 20 DF 20 DB - DC 0D 0A 1B 5B 37 43 DC   : 30m. . .....[7C.

See those "1B" characters? Those are control characters (hex 1B is ASCII ESC).
You can't view those characters correctly in most text editors.
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