[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

> Yes, and was considered. But backslash would not reliably pass through
> EBCDIC gateways, which (believe it or not) was a major headache at the
> time. The author of the quoted-printable spec wrote that the following
> characters could not be counted on to get through: !"#$@[\]^`{|}~

Actually, this was a vision of what VAXman yells when he sees gratuitous 
QP.  :-)