On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, David Combs wrote: > For the first time ever, I finally did an "s" save > to a file of a msg that on-screen (trn) looked just > fine, all ascii -- but then in that file I "s"'d > it to, the body had all this gibberish: Yes, saving the article saves the raw article, not trn's interpretation of the article -- this is the best thing to do, and preserves the original poster's intent (since we save exactly what they sent). I glanced a bit at the code, and I don't believe that there's a way to get the save command to save trn's interpretation of the article, nor to ask 'e'xtract to save a text article, so it looks like you'd have to use something like munpack on the saved file to decode it again. ..wayne..