Hi Mikie, I hate to toot my own horn, but I'm a teacher too. However, unlike you my specialty is posting so I'm volunteering my 1st lesson (to whet people's appetite to subscribe to my newsletter - for a small fee).
Lesson #1 A post should have lines not greater than 79 characters. In other words, when the author examines the text as displayed at the destination (in this case, lfs-support Archives) there should be no horizontal scroll-bar present nor should it be needed to display the remainder of a line. Like you, I'm also longing for the good old days when as Archie and Edith would put it, "vt220's were vt220's and men were men" and I might add a line was an 80-character line (max). I know that cisco editors have to account now for the latest in display resolutions, like 2560×1440 or more, but pretending you're still in the good old teletypewriter days (vi for Unix/Linux or Notepad for Windows) and hitting a strategic Enter when the text seems to visually get closer to 80 characters solves this requirement very easily and cleanly, even when the line of _thought_ tends to go on and on forever (like this one). Cheers (cisco is on the recovery path, I hear), -- Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
