From: VE1E0@N0spam.rac.ca 
  
 Carter  wrote: 
  
 >   Netscape 4.9, which I use, tends to break long lines 
 >unevenly leaving some lines at full screen and some at only a couple of 
 >words in length.  It appears to depend on the format of the incoming 
 >text. 
 > 
 >Carter 
  
 No Carter, what's going on here is that you have YOUR incoming 
 line length  set at some 'onscreen' figure so that the line-feeds 
 that are buried in the incoming text are giving a line feed and 
 YOUR OWN line feeds are also. I assure you that if you don't set 
 your incoming line lengths that your screen will look much 
 neater. 
  
 To see what's going on let's say that an incoming block of text 
 is line fed at 60 and your own INCOMING line length is set at 70. 
 The first line of incoming text will wrap at 60 then YOUR line 
 feed will wrap the next line at 10 which will make the third line 
 only 50 characters long. This will continue and you'll end up 
 with a very uneven block of text on your screen. 
  
 If you had removed your own linefeeds then almost the whole block 
 would be wrapped at 60 characters...much much neater.   :) 
  
 Mind you, the next poster may have his lines set to 80 which will 
 make his lines longer but they'll all still be even. Give it a 
 try, I'm betting that you'll like it. 
  
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 -Gord. 
  
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