[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Of course what the original poster did not consider is why > the standard line length was laid down... the VT100 terminals > (and related ones) had a line length which was 80 characters > (ok, with some options to switch to 132 characters if I > remember correctly)... and that is the first machine through > which I access Usenet. And the version of vi which I used > at the time was not very good with dealing with long lines. > But it worked.
Technically there is word wrap, but for a lot of messages using a non- proportional font, non-wrapped makes a lot of sense (more even), for example program listings and ascii art :-D -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ Happy Customers: http://castleamber.com/testimonials.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
