Re: undecipherable posts

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

At 9:19 AM 5/30/96, Louis N Proyect wrote:

>I apologize for my bad temper but I think I may be getting to the bottom
>of the problem at this point. I have a suspicion that many of the people
>on the list, including Louis G., use Windows to post and receive their
>mail. Those who do probably don't see any "line-wrap" problem. There are
>other people, including myself, who use a university account. University
>accounts are tied to Unix machines which are character-based. This means
>that a line can only be 72 characters wide. So if you write a post in
>Windows in which a line is more than 72 characters, it will spill over to
>the next line. It will not be obvious to the sender or other people using
>Windows. To the rest of us it will be unreadable.

Hmm. I use Eudora for the Macintosh, in its default window size. I think it
just does soft returns at the end of lines, reserving hard returns (CR-LF,
or in MacWorld, just the CR) only for end-of-paragraphs. With soft returns,
a posting will turn over appropriately regardless of screen size. Do other
mailers insert hard returns at the end of every line?

Doug

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