ANST - Netiquette

[Lord Larkin O'Kane]

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998 13:07:23 -0800, "Timothy A. McDaniel"
<tmcd at crl.com> wrote:

<!>> But when you do as Daniel requests
<!>> you get some horribly mangled
<!>> quotes like the above.
<!>
<!>
<!>I'm not sure why.  Do you have shorter line lengths
<!>than 70?
<!>

No, I have line lenght set to 70 but when your 70chr line combines
with my 3chr quote designator it breaks at 70 chrs (or the nearst
word) and starts a new line. Then it comes to that CR that you put in
at the 70th Character and happily starts a new line.   

Now I can fix that by designating a 73ch line but then if you have
yours set at 70 you get the same thing.  Much easier to use some of
the newer freeware [Pegasus for example] that has wordwrap.

<!>> By the way, Daniel. What horribly ancient
<!>> software are you using that
<!>> doesn't do wordwrap?
<!>
<!>*Smile* when you say that, boy!  UNIX mail and pine.

<SHUDDER> :) I feel for you pardner. I had to struggle with pine when
the wife had a tenet.edu account.

<!>Oh, and I think popclient (a mail transfer client)
<!>also chokes on long lines.
<!>
<!>(At least the Linux implementations of popclient.)

Well, at least it's free. . . :)

Larkin
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