Richard B. Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that many hardware terminals e.g. VT100 or VT320 do not handle > long lines well. > > I can't see any reason why anyone would need to send more than 132 > characters in one line of text! > > You may have noted that books, magazines and newspapers limit their line > lengths. > > There are sound reasons for that! So PLEASE take your nine hundred > character line and break it up!
The advantage of leaving the wrapping to the receiver is that everyone can define their own line length and wrap the text into that space using the algorithm they like best. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
