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Date:      Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:18:14 +1000
From:      Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net>
To:        Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>
Cc:        ctm-users@freebsd.org, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com>, Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net>
Subject:   Re: No deltas via email anymore? 
Message-ID:  <201001210118.o0L1IElB007517@dungeon.home>
In-Reply-To: <4B579F5E.7070801@missouri.edu> from Stephen Montgomery-Smith at "Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:27:10 -0600"
References:  <201001201203.o0KC3r5E036646@fire.js.berklix.net> <201001202351.o0KNpsh3006649@dungeon.home> <4B579F5E.7070801@missouri.edu>

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On Wednesday, 20th January 2010, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

>Stephen McKay wrote:
>
>> It would be trivial to change ctm_smail to send lines of 72 characters.
>> It would reduce the encoding efficiency slightly, but not enough to
>> worry about.  It is not worth making it optional.  I'll probably do
>> this when I get a moment.
>
>This looks very easy to implement, namely change the line
>#define LINE_LENGTH     76
>in /usr/src/usr.sbin/ctm/ctm_smail

Yes.  Multiples of 4 only.

>So, would there be a problem with making this start right now?
>(Remember I make the deltas, so I can make this happen anytime.)

Righto.  I've changed my local copy from 76 to 72 and did a small test
run.  Works for me.  I'll update the official source when I get a chance.

A cautious person would do their own test run, of course. :-)

Stephen.



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