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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Screen wrap (was Re: Font menu SANITY!!)
Message-ID: <1990Mar24.011708.21961@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 24 Mar 90 01:17:08 GMT
References: <48.260A1070@imagery.FIDONET.ORG> <53995@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
Lines: 32

As quoted from <53995@bbn.COM> by levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin):
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| In article <48.260A1070@imagery.FIDONET.ORG> Philip.Craig@p27.f22.n282.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Philip Craig) writes:
| |In a message to All [22 Mar 90 06:27:00] Christopher Silverberg writes:
| | >In article <10953@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael
| | >Thomas Niehaus) writes:
| |>>> Philip Craig - via FidoNet node 1:282/33
| | >>I'm really getting tired of these messages that go flying off the right hand
| | >>side of my screen.  Please put a return at the end of every line (and if
| | >I think it must be YOUR system, or your terminal setup causing the problems.
| |So which is it, UseNeters?  Do I need to do something about my setup,
| 
| If I've got my attributions right, Mr. Niehaus is right.  There should
| be no lines longer than 80 characters.  If you are reading news with
| some Mac program, maybe it softwraps by word for you.  I mostly read
| from a Sun, which character wraps making it hard to read.  Some
| readers don't wrap at all, making it impossible.  And if I want to
| print an article for later study, no wrapping is done.
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Fidonet messages use soft carriage returns, even when transferred between
machines.  The Fido-to-Usenet gateway should be inserting hard carriage
returns in messages mained at the Usenet.

(Source:  Fidonet tech documentation I got back while I was still working on
the D*mned H*ck, aka UNaXcess.)

++Brandon
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