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   Joseph Rosevear to All   
   wrapping lines   
   05 Mar 23 10:38:27   
   
   From: Mail@JoesLife.org   
      
   Hello all,   
      
   I posted a reply to Harold Johanssen's post about a tool to encrypt/   
   decrypt the contents of a directory recursively.  Or I tried to post a   
   reply, anyway.  It was oddly embarassing.   
      
   When I viewed my post I found that it didn't look right.  So I tried   
   again, and again.  It seems I didn't understand how to use the Pan   
   newsreader.  I expected a newline to be treated as a newline, but   
   apparently Pan doesn't work that way.  Oddly, newlines can be ignored at   
   the viewers discretion (toggle "view; body pane; wrap article").  I   
   wonder, do all newsreaders work that way?   
      
   Anyway, it was a frustration for me, as I wanted to give some lines   
   showing a script and some other lines showing what the user should type.   
   They didn't display as individual lines when the article was viewed with   
   "wrap article" selected.  Sigh.   
      
   I think that is called "Error between keyboard and chair".   
      
   -Joe   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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