Neil wrote:
>DOS pgms such as Arachne use hard wrapping. When they wrap a line on the
>screen, they also insert a CRLF into the text.
>
>Winblows apps, OTOH, use soft wrapping. Since Windows windows can be
>resized, the displayed text rewraps itself to fit onto the screen. But
>the text in the file isn't changed. So when a Winblows user writes an
>email and a DOS user reads it, the poor DOS user gets lines that are too
>long.
IIRC Notepad changes the file, this program is overall annoying. You can
open a Unix file in it IIRC but if you save it it will be turned into
rubbish (on screen that is).
I on't know many DOS programs that wrap lines, so I can't comment on that.
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
