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   Carlos Navarro to Tommi Koivula   
   space oddity (fixes)   
   21 Apr 24 21:03:18   
   
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   21 Apr 2024 07:40, you wrote to me:   
      
    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   
    CN>> wrapped.   
      
    TK> This is exactly what I did once in the past. :) The combination of   
    TK> 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   
    CN>> "long line test" thread in FIDOTEST.)   
      
    TK> Yes. It needs a little manual works.   
      
   I've tested this again, and it seems that TB displays and quotes long lines   
   and long quotes properly with flowed=on. Maybe I did my previous tests with   
   flowed=off, not sure. I'll need to test more...   
      
   Carlos   
      
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