At 14:05 -0400 on 06/05/2009, Rich Siegel wrote about Re: Hard Wrap: >On 6/5/09 at 12:51 PM, [email protected] (Dennis) wrote: > >> Also, out of curiosity, why wrap to 72 characters as opposed to 80 or >> some other number? > >I do it because you can't back up lines longer than 72ch to punch cards. >
I assume the other 8 columns are being used for the sequence numbers to allow the cards to be restored to the correct order after an "OOPS - I dropped the Deck" incident <g>. -- Robert A. Rosenberg RAR Programming Systems Ltd. (845)-357-0931 - Home (646)-479-1984 - Cell Phone (646)-349-4025 - Fax --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
