Government satellites recorded Ben Collver saying:
> sk8r-365 wrote:
>> Ben, It's **** hard to read your post when it scrolls off the right
>> hand side of the screen continually. Please set your word wrap to, at
>> most, 80 characters; would be very helpful.
>
> Sorry about that, I didn't realize I was sending long lines. I've
> reconfigured Thunderbird to wrap the lines at 72 columns.

Thanks a lot. BTW, I *really* should have included a comment about
how very good your replies were - sorry I didn't.

>
> By default Thunderbird sends format=flowed. SLRN does not support this,
> but you can read it more easily if you set your word wrap in SLRN.
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3676.html
> http://www.slrn.org/manual/slrn-manual-6.html#ss6.142

Didn't realize slrn can wrap - I'll add the needed options to the
rc. Thank you. I did read your post using the left and right arrow
keys.

> Here is a funny rant about hard line breaks.
> http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/w...cate_line.html

That's a long rant and I haven't time to read it - nor judge it. I understand
that the 70 chars thing began due to temninal screen widths. I consider it
needed still if for one reason alone: the entire world isn't using the same
tools (applications), OS or even a GUI.

Looking forward to reading more of your posts.

--
sk8r-365

http://goodbye-microsoft.com/

sk8r-365 wrote:
> That's a long rant and I haven't time to read it - nor judge it. I understand
> that the 70 chars thing began due to temninal screen widths. I consider it
> needed still if for one reason alone: the entire world isn't using the same
> tools (applications), OS or even a GUI.
>
> Looking forward to reading more of your posts.

Thank you.

My thought is that even an 8 bit computer like a C=64 would have no
trouble wrapping long lines at the time of reading. I'll still pre-wrap
to be compatible with old software.

Ben

Government satellites recorded Ben Collver saying:
> sk8r-365 wrote:
>> That's a long rant and I haven't time to read it - nor judge it. I understand
>> that the 70 chars thing began due to temninal screen widths. I consider it
>> needed still if for one reason alone: the entire world isn't using the same
>> tools (applications), OS or even a GUI.
>>
>> Looking forward to reading more of your posts.
>
> Thank you.
>
> My thought is that even an 8 bit computer like a C=64 would have no
> trouble wrapping long lines at the time of reading. I'll still pre-wrap
> to be compatible with old software.
>

Not having success using the W key to wrap (a built-in for slrn).

Nor can I get functional:

set wrap_flags 7
set wrap_method 2

.... have to return to it later as I have to go to a job.

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sk8r-365

http://goodbye-microsoft.com/