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From: "Andrew Z Carpenter" <andrew@gloucestershire.freeserve.co.yuk>
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Subject: Re: Dwarf
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 02:43:40 -0000
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> "Jeremy C B Nicoll" <Jeremy@omba.demon.co.uk> wrote in
> message news:4af13c6dffJeremy@omba.demon.co.uk...
>
> I hope no-one is assuming I'm using - say - DOS or Windows.
> Or any form of computer powered by an x86 or Pentium or
> Athlon or anything like that.  I've got a 21" monitor on
> this machine, but the newsreader window allows me to read
> 80 characters per line.


Nobody assumes anything of the sort.  It's well known
that in this newsgroup there are people using almost
every OS and News client imaginable.


> User-Agent: Pluto/2.03a (RISC-OS/3.70)

That's you.  You already knew that, of course.
Can you turn off client-side text wrapping in that?

Andrew