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Date:      Sat, 8 Apr 2000 17:37:46 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Meerwaldt@t-online.de (Frederik Meerwaldt)
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        Frederik Meerwaldt <Meerwaldt@t-online.de>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Line Wrapping (Was: Re: Setting up a Webserver)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004081736070.1836-100000@server.wes.mee.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000408135602.G4744@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>

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Hi!
> 
> > [...]
> >> 
> >> Please wrap lines at 70 characters.
> > 
> > Why not 80? A normal Terminal (I'm currently on a VT220) has got 80
> > Chars/Line I think. But that's OT now.
> 
> 70 allows a few levels of ">" quote characters without lines being too
> long for an 80 character terminal.  But wrapping at 80 is still better
> than not wrapping at all.

But why wrap the lines? All programs do that automatically, I think.
I'm using pine for my mails, and it does this automatically.

But please correct me, if I'm wrong.

Regards,
	Freddy



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