Subj : same as it ever was
To   : mark lewis
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Fri May 11 2018 11:05:01

Hallo mark!

 ml> in FTN specs, "unbounded" refers to the message body *length*...

I stand corrected.

 ml> packed messages still have to be separated by nulls, though...

The fifth one when counting null terminators in a single packed message ... 
ignoring any false nulls within the first 14 bytes of the msg_header(s) that 
is.

 ml> if you are finding messages that left your system with no LFs on
 ml> each line and they are being seein elsewhere with LFs on each
 ml> line, then yes, you have found a buggy tosser in the line...

Actually it was you (and Nicholas Boel) who pointed them out to me in this 
particular echoarea.  As far as I was concerned nothing here generates or uses 
them other than to seperate paragraphs.  Word wrapping is left to highly 
capable editors such as vim.  That way displays that are not DOS-think 80 
columns wide such as smart phones can be deployed to their fullest extent.  For 
example this particular paragraph on a 60 character wide display would look 
something like this;

----- 60 character width word wrapping starts
Actually it was you (and Nicholas Boel) who pointed them
out to me in this particular echoarea.  As far as I was
concerned nothing here generates or uses them other than to
seperate paragraphs.  Word wrapping is left to highly
capable editors such as vim.  That way displays that are
not DOS-think 80 columns wide such as smart phones can be
deployed to their fullest extent.  For example this
particular paragraph on a 60 character wide display would
look something like this;
----- 60 character width word wrapping ends

The above linefeeds should be preserved even on DOS-think crippleware given all 
the lines are less than 80 columns.

 ml> one that needs to be fixed or removed...

Best of luck with that.  It has been a bug since forever.
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