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 * AMS member: Listing <http://www.ams.org/cml/> * Email: Hans Aberg <[log in to unmask]>