On 20/3/03 20:52, "Dan Frakes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/20/03 5:16 AM, "Peter C.S. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thus spake Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, circa 3/19/2003 4:49 PM: >>> know that plain text hard wraps text? It does so at the nearest word end to >>> 76 characters. >> >> Another nice feature, but I still prefer Eudora's handling of it, where you >> can not only specify in preferences the number of characters, rather than >> having 76 hard wired into the program, but turn it off on a message by >> message basis, which is useful for sending commands to mailing list >> managers. > > Although I agree that it's nice to decide the number of characters at which > line breaks occur, in terms of the other feature, Eudora doesn't really > "turn it off" -- Eudora supports "format=flowed" text, which is a way of > designating (to supporting clients) where hard returns were originally > placed. The text is generally still broken at whatever length any mail > gateways between you and the recipient decided to use for line length; the > server-inserted line breaks are just ignored by the client (again, only if > it supports format=flowed). Most mailing list servers don't support it. >
Eudora can also turn off line-wrapping completely (either on a global basis, or message by message). It had this ability long before F=F came along. -- Barry -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
