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   smw to Ted Heise   
   Re: nn (was: Replace Google Groups with    
   10 Jan 22 00:06:27   
   
   XPost: news.software.readers   
   From: smw@mort.smwonline.ca   
      
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   Ted Heise  writes:   
      
   >On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 20:54:06 -0000 (UTC),   
   >  smw  wrote:   
      
   >>  The other item on my wish list is to convert quoted-printable   
   >>  text to UTF automatically, with an option to force line   
   >>  wrapping at a user-settable column (because flowed paragraphs   
   >>  in QP present as a single line with many hundreds of   
   >>  characters).   
      
   >For what it's worth, slrn does this with the command "w" (for   
   >"wrap" I suppose) while reading articles.  Maybe knowing what to   
   >look for in that code would simplify using some of it?  I could be   
   >way off base here, having only ever glanced at sources.   
      
   Thank you!  That does help.   
      
        - Steven   
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