On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 at 08:51:37AM -0500, Rich Greenberg wrote: > > 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 Not unless RFC821 has been superseded: 4.5.3.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? ********************************************** ** Main's Law: For every action there is an ** ** equal and opposite government program. ** ********************************************** ======================================================================= as ======================================================================= 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? **************************************************************** ** Main's Law: For every action there is an equal and ** ** opposite government program. ** **************************************************************** ======================================================================= 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