From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 8 13:46:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.de (mailout03.sul.t-online.de [194.25.134.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF33137B7ED for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:46:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Meerwaldt@t-online.de) Received: from fwd00.sul.t-online.de by mailout03.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 12e278-000487-04; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 22:45:54 +0200 Received: from server.wes.mee.com (320044045192-0001@[193.158.179.88]) by fwd00.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 12e277-1Zs2ErC; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 22:45:53 +0200 Received: from server.wes.mee.com (server.wes.mee.com [192.168.1.1]) by server.wes.mee.com (8.9.3/FreeBSD V4.0) with ESMTP id RAA01838; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 17:37:46 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 17:37:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Meerwaldt@t-online.de (Frederik Meerwaldt) To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Frederik Meerwaldt , Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Line Wrapping (Was: Re: Setting up a Webserver) In-Reply-To: <20000408135602.G4744@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: 320044045192-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message