On 18 Aug 00 at 11:44, arachne-digest wrote:
> From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I don't know what Eric uses but I use Netscape and it displays only what
> it gets. So, without CRLFs, Richard's post went off into right field for
> me also. In addition, if I try to quote a message like that, Netscape will
> wrap it into the compose window but cuts the line off at 256 characters.
>
> Arachne is a LOT more polite in that respect. The onscreen wrap goes into
> the outbound text.
DOS pgms such as Arachne use hard wrapping. When they wrap a line on the
screen, they also insert a CRLF into the text.
Winblows apps, OTOH, use soft wrapping. Since Windows windows can be
resized, the displayed text rewraps itself to fit onto the screen. But
the text in the file isn't changed. So when a Winblows user writes an
email and a DOS user reads it, the poor DOS user gets lines that are too
long.
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