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From: pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,fido.ufgate
Subject: Re: Line wrap?
Message-ID: <10249@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 14 Feb 90 21:31:33 GMT
References: <2933.25D60BEC@fidogate.FIDONET.ORG> <10183@hoptoad.uucp> <ZOP1D9Fxds13@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar)
Organization: Late Night Software (San Francisco)
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In article <ZOP1D9Fxds13@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <10183@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>> Probably a better place to address this is in the Usenet news readers.
>> There is no good reason why they shouldn't be able to wrap lines
>> intelligently while showing you a message.
>
>What makes you think we *want* to change our software? My own experience
>with message systems like Fido and Opus and TBBS that do smart wrapping is
>that it's more of a pain than it's worth. These days everyone's got 80
>column terminals, even on 8-bitters, so perhaps it's time to quit catering
>to old hardware on *both* sides.

     Hmmm, I run a VT-220 in the 132 col mode.  I don't think
it is safe to assume that "These days everyone's got 80 column
terminals".  

	    Tim


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