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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 30 May 1994.
Re: TECHNICAL: Problems with linewrap

Re: TECHNICAL: Problems with linewrap

Bob Allison:
>   The 77 columns won't cause trouble.  The problem you had was that 
>while 80 columns is the 'standard', many systems-software actually wrap 
>anything over 78 columns.

Actually, the Usenet transport system doesn't care how long lines are.
(Except things traveling over NNTP will probably get split at 255
chars, for stupid reasons.)

The usual causes of linewrap are news reading software, and news
posting software, and both of these *should* be controllable..
--

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From: fle...@cse.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: TECHNICAL: Problems with linewrap
Date: 30 May 1994 17:25:35 GMT
Organization: Penn State Comp Sci & Eng
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