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Hello Carlos,

 Carlos Navarro <2:341/234.1> vs. Anton Shepelev:

 AS>> Right, but there is no such discrepancy in BBS, Usenet, or
 AS>> e-mail.  Have you a been a long time in Fidonet, has it
 AS>> always (or at least since 1995) used soft-wrapped text?
 CN> I started as a point in 1992. I mostly used FrontDoor's editor (FM)
 CN> and timEd. Both support(ed) long lines and wrapped text.

I believe the idea of long lines (i.e. one paragraph = one line) has always
been there since the advent of IBM PC and MS-DOS and so BBS tech (and, later
in 1984, Fidonet) inherited it for its text-processing needs. BBSes first
appeared even before that, in late 1970s, and run on CP/M systems (CP/M
technically was a predecessor of DOS).
However Usenet/e-mail/internet-related stuff originated in Unix world and *nix
system standards and/or Usenet policy could be different. I'm not sure why AS
keeps referring to "BBS and Usenet" in this regard. :-)


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