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On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 at 08:51:37AM -0500, Rich Greenberg wrote:
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> Actually the RFC permits 1024 characters between lineends.
Not unless RFC821 has been superseded:
4.5.3. SIZES
[...]
text line
The maximum total length of a text line including the
<CRLF> is 1000 characters (but not counting the leading
dot duplicated for transparency).
Oddly, the message format RFC (RFC822) puts no limit on line length.
> > Some M$ products format paragraphs as a single line...
>
> Many mailers will automagically wrap lines for you. Some are even nice
> enough to wrap at word boundrys. The one I use (Mutt under unix) does
> that for displaying, but not for printing. I added some to Mutt's print
> function to call a unix utility that will break at word boundrys for
> printing. For those mutt users, I have this in my .muttrc:
>
> set print_command="fold -s -w 79 | $HOME/bin/ansilpr -f"
>
> Where ansilpr is a shell script that inserts the VT100 print escape
> sequences ahead of the data and the off sequence after.
I also use Mutt under Linux :). I use par to format printed messages:
set print_command="par 72gqr | lpr"
This command will print a messy message with long lines and bad formatting
that looks like this:
=======================================================================
John Q. Public writes:
> Jane Doe writes:
> >
> > May I remind people that this newsgroup is for posting binaries only. Please keep all discussion in .d where it belongs.
> Who appointed you net.god?
> I'll discuss things here if I feel like it.
Could you two please take this to e-mail?
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** Main's Law: For every action there is an **
** equal and opposite government program. **
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as
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John Q. Public writes:
> Jane Doe writes:
>
> > May I remind people that this newsgroup is for posting binaries
> > only. Please keep all discussion in .d where it belongs.
>
> Who appointed you net.god? I'll discuss things here if I feel like
> it.
Could you two please take this to e-mail?
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** Main's Law: For every action there is an equal and **
** opposite government program. **
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Par is the best formating program I've seen (far better than fmt). It's
available in *nix and DOS versions at: http://www.nicemice.net/par/
BTW, using non-standard quote characters (you used "{") will prevent
formatting programs (e.g., par in default configuration) from working
correctly. Life would be simpler if everyone used the de facto standard ">"
as the quote character.
Regards,
-rex
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