Subj : Re: Desired Living Document (section): Author Compliance
To   : mark lewis
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Sun Apr 14 2019 07:54 pm

-=> mark lewis wrote to Rob Swindell <=-

 ml> maybe i don't fully understand it, then... why would i or my terminal
 ml> care about the width of the original writer's screen if we're not going
 ml> to use that value on our end some how?

Perhaps for formatting reasons such as a table or somesuch?  I don't really
know either.  I'd never heard of the COLS kludge until this conversation.

Later,
Sean


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