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Subject: Re: No deltas via email anymore? 
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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.