MSGID: 2:221/1.0 662498c8
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TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-03-02
Carlos Navarro wrote:

CN>   TK> If I get it right, with 'flowed=on' jamnntpd will always wrap
CN>   TK> the long lines, but adding a space to the end of the wrapped
CN>   TK> line.
CN>
CN> Exactly.
CN>
CN>   TK> My idea was to allow sending the long line from fidonet
CN>   TK> unwrapped so that the news client would wrap it. Just like
CN>   TK> ftn editors do.
CN>
CN> If you want to experiment, you can get a similar result if you set
CN> WRAP_WIDTH to 997. Only paragraphs longer than that will be wrapped.

This is exactly what I did once in the past. :) The combination of
WRAP_WIDTH 997 and FLOWED OFF was a pretty good choice.

CN> It works (in fact, other NNTP servers do that), but there are
CN> issues with some newsreaders, e.g. Thunderbird. A quoted paragraph
CN> is not wrapped, so it becomes a long line prefixed by just one ">".
CN> This doesn't work well with all FTN/BBS software. (See my "long
CN> line test" thread in FIDOTEST.)

Yes. It needs a little manual works.

'Tommi

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