X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,3598bbfa2d4d8417 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-05-30 10:32:52 PST Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!psuvax1!psuvax1!flee From: flee@cse.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: TECHNICAL: Problems with linewrap Date: 30 May 1994 17:25:35 GMT Organization: Penn State Comp Sci & Eng Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <2saejf$6ld@gagme.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dictionopolis.cse.psu.edu Bob Allison: > The 77 columns won't cause trouble. The problem you had was that >while 80 columns is the 'standard', many systems-software actually wrap >anything over 78 columns. Actually, the Usenet transport system doesn't care how long lines are. (Except things traveling over NNTP will probably get split at 255 chars, for stupid reasons.) The usual causes of linewrap are news reading software, and news posting software, and both of these *should* be controllable.. --