>I don't know what Eric uses but I use Netscape and it displays only what
it gets. So, without CRLFs, Richard's post went off into right field for
me also. In addition, if I try to quote a message like that, Netscape will
wrap it into the compose window but cuts the line off at 256 characters.
Line length constables (and retired line length constables) just try to
inform the sender that the wrap he sees isn't being sent.
Arachne is a LOT more polite in that respect. The onscreen wrap goes into
the outbound text.
>
I have been able to read long-line e-newsletters from various about.com
departments, and some of them go far past 256 characters. I use Ctrl-RightArrow
to move the cursor one word at a time rather than one character at a time. I
usually use EPM in OS/2 and Tiny Editor in DOS. I use FTE for DOS when the file
is too big to fit in low memory with Tiny Editor. Tiny Editor was written by
Tim Baldwin of IBM UK Laboratories Ltd for DOS and 16-bit text-mode OS/2, latest
version was in 1993.
I haven't checked the line-length limit of the latest Netscape or Mozilla
releases. First hurdle is to get Netscape or Mozilla to recognize an email
message downloaded by another program.
Advantage of long lines is that they wrap according to the reader. Otherwise if
the lines are longer than the reader's width, the lines may be broken into
alternating long and short lines. Some messages I receive have line lengths of
90 to 130 characters; difficult to see the rationale of that. Some email
readers use variable-width fonts, which confuses things. Eric S. Emerson's
truck or van, among other things, wouldn't line up right.
