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Re: 19th

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From: emmel
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:47
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Thus ervaqre spoke:

> emmel is a fearsome pirate...
>
>>>> Well..perhaps my newsreader is just really gay for not being able to 
>>>> wrap lines longer than 80 characters. The man pages says "simply press 
>>>>> " or something like it :s
>>>> 
>>> Now your post came out crappy on Firefox for some reason. I the number
>>> of characters at exactly 80 and now it did this crazy line break at
>>> the last two lines of your post.
>>
>> slrn does fine. It simply allows for scrolling...
>
> wrap_article is easier than horizontal scrolling though, unless you are 
> some sort of nerd who uses a video projector to show slrn in 1080p on 
> the buildings across the street

Most posts comply anyway, and this way it doesn't mess anything up.
Besides, I can easily use slrn at 127 char width.
-- 
emmel <the_emmel*you-know-what-that's-for*@gmx.net>
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From: emmel <the_emmel-cut_that_out@gmx.net>
Newsgroups: alt.games.lucas-arts.monkey-island, alt.castlenet, alt.games.creatures
Subject: Re: 19th
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:47:31 +0200 (CEST)
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