Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 14:36:09 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: molter@logic.it Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation Message-ID: <199708281936.OAA14019@beowulf.utmb.edu>
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> > On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, M. L. Dodson wrote: > > [...] > > I know you are used to Win95 holding your hand, but please try to > > press the "Return" (may be labeled "<-| Enter") key about every > > 65-70 characters or so. The people who can help you already run > > some flavor of Unix, and the news readers there don't wrap the > > lines like the products from Redmond do. We like to control our > > own computers, not have Bill Gates do it for us. > > ;-) > > Have you ever tried Par, a filter for reformatting paragraphs ? > You can find it in the ports. > > Marco > Actually, emacs does just fine ;-) The point I was making was that when confronted with 2+ screenfulls of nonwrapped lines, especially with no paragraphing, most people just hit the "delete" key without bothering to read it. I'm including myself; I don't know why I bothered with that one. The problem is mostly the windows mailers, I believe. The message probably looks fine on people's Windows screen. They don't realize that the line wrapping and paragraph separation conventions in Windows are totally different from those in Unix. It's only when WE see it that it looks like a dense forest. Going the other way should not be a problem at all. Then when you get one of these jockeys that thinks it is "kool" to not use any capitalization it really becomes totally unreadable! Bud -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790
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