Subj : Re: format for data storage?
To   : comp.programming
From : Randy Howard
Date : Mon Aug 01 2005 02:41 am

mensanator@aol.com wrote
(in article 
<1122858911.551012.103580@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):

> Randy Howard wrote:
>> I suspect one reason you didn't figure it out is that (IIRC)
>> Google does NOT display text from signature blocks by default
>> when you use their interface .
> 
> Yes, it does. Note your signature is quoted below.

Then it seems there is no excuse for looks like willfully 
ignoring/misunderstanding it in order to make some comment about 
CBF not knowing how to program instead.

>> "If you want to post a followup via groups.google.com, don't
>> use the broken "Reply" link at the bottom of the article.
>> Click on "show options" at the top of the article, then click
>> on the "Reply" at the bottom of the article headers."
>> - Keith Thompson
>> 
>> That is very good advice,
> 
> But not in the case of a long post (such as yours) where the
> "show options" link has scrolled off the top of the screen.

If your screen size is inadequate, that's beyond my control.

> If you must use the "Reply" link, simply click the
> [Preview] button and then the [Edit Message] button
> to have Google quote the same way it would had you used
> the "show options" "relpy" links.

So there are two ways to get it right then.  Pity neither of 
them seems comprehensible to the OP.

-- 
Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)

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