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Skriven 2010-03-19 21:26:20 av Robert LaPrise (1:282/1055)
   Kommentar till text 5994 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: Re: Windows Update Fix
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Hi mark,

19 Mar 10 18:33, you wrote to me:

 RW>> My reader fixed yours, otherwise your text would look like his.

 RL>> Shouldn't, I dumped the original message from here to file and
 RL>> examined it with a hex editor. Single LF where a wrap would take
 RL>> place to make the right margin  at 80 and CR/LF pairs only where
 RL>> a hard return was specifically added by  pressing enter when I
 RL>> edited the message.

 ml> there should not be any need for a CRLF or LF at the end of a line...
 ml> only at the end of a paragraph... leave it up to the reader's tools to
 ml> wrap at /their/ screen widths or set reading margins ;)

Yep and until this recent "issue" I left GoldED at it's defaults which was to
do a hard return where an enter key was pressed otherwise leave it be. But
there is still stuff out there from the 80's/90's when EVERYONE was console
mode in DOS and (generally) locked into 80 columns. Not having checked the code
in awhile I couldn't say right off if sbbsecho isn't reflowing messages on
export or not. This is just one of those puzzling things that has me curious,
otherwise I could care less, haven't seen any issues anywhere else or had any
reported to me. It seems that for the moment we have two systems tossing with
sbbsecho (mine and the other guys) where the messages show up on some systems
with extra linefeeds in them.

I'm currently using Synchronet and a custom version of GoldED that I modified
to work correctly with the Synchronet Message Base (skipping private messages,
not fucking up the indexes if a message is written to the "mail" message base,
etc.) nothing that touched line wrapping, line endings, and so on. I'm still
hunting for something else that will work in Linux (maybe Maximus) that uses
some other message base so I can run JAM or Squish or something that FastEcho
supports and that I don't have to screw around so much with GoldED in order for
it to make use of the message base. Till then I deal with what I've got.

If all else fails when I can finally upgrade the workstation and switch that
machine over to be my server I may turn the current server into an OS/2 machine
and move the board/ftn/doors stuff onto it.

Be well,
   Robert

--- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.6 (rev A)
 * Origin: The Cosmic Watermelon, Hugo MN - melon.rlaprise.net (1:282/1055)
 * Origin: melon.rlaprise.net (1:282/1055)