> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eman [mailto:e!m!a!n@hotmail.com]
> Posted At: Friday, October 13, 2006 2:00 PM
> Posted To: microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin
> Conversation: mailto
> Subject: Re: mailto
>
> "Alexander Suhovey" <asuhovey@gmail.com> ΣΟΟΒέΙΜ/ΣΟΟΒέΙΜΑ Χ ΞΟΧΟΣΤΡΘ
> ΣΜΕΔΥΐέΕΕ: news:F2C9CBD1-46DF-46D7-9C9F-
> 64F9017E67D1@microsoft.com...
> > "Eman" <e!m!a!n@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:O1pkmto7GHA.4708@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> >> "Alexander Suhovey" <asuhovey@gmail.com> ΣΟΟΒέΙΜ/ΣΟΟΒέΙΜΑ Χ
> ΞΟΧΟΣΤΡΘ
> >> ΣΜΕΔΥΐέΕΕ: news:3870B3E6-4AC9-4493-96DF-
> 6479646293F1@microsoft.com...
> >>
> >>>>> Nice. Is that (%0D and %0A) HTML codes? What about text-based
> MUAs
> >>>>> then?
> >>>>> Is
> >>>>> there a way to insert (encoded?) CRLFs in the string?
> >>>>
> >>>> The %0D and %0A is CRLF itself here (so maybe this is
> >>>> this text-based MUA (Mail User Agent?) you're inquiring
> >>>> about).
> >>>>
> >>>> As to HTML, it's text itself but a proper MIME-header is
> >>>> required to form a valid HTML message; i'm not versed in
> >>>> mailto url syntax for that case.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> OK, I'll give you following example to illustrate my question:
> >>>
> >>> ===========8<===============
> >>> c:\>set crlf_test=a%0D%0Ab
> >>>
> >>> c:\>echo %crlf_test%
> >>> a%0D%0Ab
> >>>
> >>> c:\>echo %crlf_test%>c:\temp\crlf_test.txt
> >>>
> >>> c:\>type c:\temp\crlf_test.txt
> >>> a%0D%0Ab
> >>>
> >>> c:\>
> >>> ===========8<===============
> >>>
> >>> If %0D%0A is *just* CRLF, I should get 'a' and 'b' in two lines as
an
> >>> output, right?..
> >>
> >> I doubt it's possible to give a multi-line value to an
> >> environment variable in a batch script, but i'm not sure
> >> it's not possible. Also i'm not sure it would work as expected.
> >>
> >>> I'm quite positive that those are HTML encoded symbols just like
%20 is
> >>> a
> >>> space.
> >>
> >> Aha.
> >>
> >>> Funny that it works in my Outlook Express even though it is set to
read
> >>> and compose all messages in plain text by default. But there are
many
> >>> true
> >>> text-based MUAs out there (you're right it stands for Mail User
Agent or
> >>> just e-mail client program) like for example BLAT that I use to
send
> >>> notifications and e-mails from scripts. So I was wondering if that
would
> >>> work for them.
> >>
> >> The value of "body=.." part in the mailto url is just a plain
> >> text with special characters encoded. At this point i still don't
> >> understand exactly what you mean. What i think is, a command-line
> >> mailer like BLAT anyhow provides even greater flexibility with its
> >> native command-line syntax.
> >
> > Eman,
> >
> >>BLAT anyhow provides even greater flexibility with its native
command-line
> >>syntax.
> > Yes you right, blat does not need such techniques as discuseed here
to
> > send multi-line messages. It was just example, maybe bad one, of
text-only
> > MUA.
> >
> >> At this point i still don't understand exactly what you mean.
> > Now, what I mean is that plain text is plain text so there's nothing
to
> > encode. Any program that parces this text as plain will interpret
these
> > encoded characters literally like this:
> >
> > first%20line%0D%0Asecond%20line
> >
> > Only programs that will threat this text as HTML will produce
expected
> > output:
> >
> > first line
> > second line
> >
> > I hope now my point is clear.
>
> I think "text as HTML" is unsuitable slang here, "MIME-encoding"
> would be less confusing. I still don't understand exactly what
> you mean with reference to "text-only MUAs". Mailto url scheme is
> described in RFC 2368, that's a common thing not related to a
> particular [kind of] mail client / agent software. Of course, some
> clients just might not be able to implement some features of this
> scheme.
>
> > P.S. I find it rather ironic that two Russians (I take it you're
Russian
> > because of your MUA's message header "ΣΟΟΒέΙΜ/ΣΟΟΒέΙΜΑ Χ ΞΟΧΟΣΤΡΘ")
> are
> > trying to communicate in English and it seems that it doesn't work
out too
> > well :-)
>
> Yeah, this is Russian mindset feature. Other people asks "how
> can i accomplish this and that" without beating around the bush,
> but those Russians like this heartfelt philosophical talking ;))
>Mailto url scheme is described in RFC 2368 <<
A-ha! This answers all my questions. I just didn't know how or what
exactly to ask. On the other hand, if I knew, I wouldn't ask... Thanks.
--
Alexander Suhovey