Hello Marck,
on Thu, 20 Apr 2000, at 16:00:20 sender's local time (timezone UTC+0100),
Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
>> The complaint is the EOL character or paragraph marker that is
>> inserted at the end of each line in the message body instead of only
>> at the end of the paragraph as per other email progs.
MDP> This is not so. Some email programs violate the standards and do
MDP> not break lines within paragraphs at all. They form the paragraph
MDP> from one veeeery long line which is then wrapped by clients
MDP> fortunate enough to know how to do that - and that's not all of
MDP> them by any means.
MDP> TB adheres correctly to standards and breaks lines at the
MDP> pre-configured position. What's more, with judicious use of the
MDP> auto-format features you can get a fairly good approximation.
First: I fully agree with you.
Second: Nonetheless TB's behaviour could be improved.
At home I'm using an (in Germany) fairly famous DOS client called
"Crosspoint". This beast behaves *internally* (= as long as the message
is not being sent) like a true Windows word processor in terms of
word wrapping.
It does so (I believe) by placing an 20h 20h 0Dh 0Ah at the end of each
line. If it recognizes this combination of characters at the end of a
line during editing, it behaves as if there is no CR/LF at all and wraps
perfectly.
Upon sending the message, all "20h 20h 0Dh 0Ah" are replaced with "0Dh
0Ah" and a message that perfectly adheres to standards leaves the
system.
Probably also an idea for TB?
Best regards,
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Michael Heydekamp
AIR TRAFFIC Euro Charter GmbH
eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.airtraffic.de
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