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   Hey Kai!   
      
   > Within the first readable lines i could guess that you posted the   
   > result of the subject lines command.   
      
   That is correct except I added a few items to the commandline to redirect it   
   into vim.  It gives the same result as it does straight to the terminal.   
      
   > Some of the command sequences messed up my old fido installation   
   > completly and makes the output useless for me.   
      
   I probably should have posted it the usual way ...   
      
    :read !MANWIDTH=64 man man-pages | col -bx   
      
   not that it would have mattered unless you're using vim as your fidonet   
   editor.  From a commandline I would also pipe it through less.  The result is   
   exactly the same.   
      
   I was toying with the idea of making something like this a method of posting   
   differing documentation in fidonet echoareas but now that I see it I am not   
   all that keen, especially given your result.   
      
   Note the first line of the resulting packed MSG reads, ":128:   
   warning: table wider than line length minus indentation".  I suspect that   
   MANWIDTH=80 is probably a better choice.  I also suspect that the 64 column   
   width was intended for smart devices with limited display real estate (columns   
   x lines).  If so then I am even less interested in making something like this   
   work given my utter distain for smart devices.   
      
   I apoplogize for not anticipating your fido installation's incompatibilty with   
   modern gnu-linux tools.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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