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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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