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Hans Aberg <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 2 Oct 1997 12:49:43 +0200
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At 10:47 97/10/02, Phillip Helbig wrote:
>To start off, something completely different.  Old FORTRAN programmers
>probably do it anyway, but everyone here should limit their lines to 72
>characters, which allow them to be quoted with `> ' up to four times
>(more should never be necessary) without violating the God-given 80
>character width limit.

  One way to get around this is to switch to an emailer that can handle
MIME; it will break lines longer than 76 characters, and pick them together
again, transparently to the user. And old FORTRAN programmers could switch
to something more modern... :-)

  Hans Aberg
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