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   Message 2,531 of 2,630   
   Tommi Koivula to Carlos Navarro   
   Re: space oddity (fixes)   
   21 Apr 24 07:40:42   
   
   MSGID: 2:221/1.0 662498c8   
   REPLY: 2:341/234.1 6623f618   
   PID: JamNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 m32 mxo 20240419   
   RFC-User-Agent: Sylpheed 3.8.0beta1 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-mingw32)   
   RFC-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed   
   RFC-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit   
   CHRS: CP437 2   
   TZUTC: 0300   
   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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