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 Message 3784 
 Alan Ianson to Anton Shepelev 
 Jokes of the season 
 25 Nov 21 00:39:25 
 
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Hello Anton,

 >>           I didn't see any line on my screen which ran over 72
 >> characters here, although my software can handle up to 80.

 AS> Ironically, this very paragrph of yours is written as a single
 AS> line 472 characters wrong... er, long :-)

That could be the editor. This editor I am using now (GoldED) will save 
paragraphs as one long line. If I were to reply to you with on offline reader 
like MultiMail lines would be saved as I see them on the screen, likely with 
CR/LF line endings.

I prefer when editors use one long line for a paragraph. Then readers can wrap 
those lines as appropriate for the terminal size being used by the reader 
instead of wrapping as the writer sees it since they could be different.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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