#UUencodes
Sean-
One thing I'd highly recommend is that you not use WordPerfect to edit
textfiles. Often, word processors show unusual ASCII characters as something
other than they are, and often they do reformatting and can add codes even is
you specify saving as text only. A good programmer's text editor will get you
a long way.
As to the 3D stuff, is that what you see as soon as you receive the file, i.e.
before anything else is touching it?
Mr. Zombie