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From: paul@actrix.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: characters past 80th column
Message-ID: <1990Feb7.222553.5806@actrix.co.nz>
Date: 7 Feb 90 22:25:53 GMT
References: <5604@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: paul@actrix.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater)
Organization: Actrix Public Access UNIX, Wellington, New Zealand
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In article <5604@hydra.gatech.EDU> ae219dp@prism.gatech.EDU (Devon Prichard) writes:
>
>on about every fifth or so article I read, the text goes past the 80th
>column, and the last character spells out a whole sentence one character
>at a time.  I'm using MS-Kermit in VT-100 mode on an XT clone, Herc graphics,
>logging onto a Sequent 81 unix box, in k-shell. I use "rn" to read

MS-Kermit can fix the problem with:

set term wrap on

You can put it in your mskermit.ini file to make it automatic.

I posted this rather than e-mailing, because it brings up a related problem:
editors like emacs and vi, which I guess are the two most common editors
used with USEnet, don't word wrap when they hit the right margin.

DOes someone know of a PD editor which DOES wordwrap under UNIX Sys V?
Also, many Fido BBS solve this problem by using a soft CR at the end
of some lines ($9D not $0D) to show that the paragraph has not ended
yet, and can be wrapped to different margins if desired.  As i'm planning
to run UFGate, can someone advise what de facto standards exist for
doing this with USEnet?  I've seen heaps of postings from people who
un-socially don't bother hitting RETURN before the 80th column.

Also, I would recommend setting the column width to 72 cols, to allow for
overflow when quoting messages.
-- 
Paul Gillingwater, paul@actrix.co.nz