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Subject: Re: ASCII file transfers into Pico... Question.
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In article <mktjadx.724529647@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> mktjadx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Jeff A. Dilcher) writes:
>Hello,
>I have a Pico difficulty.  I am uploading text files from my pc, over the
>phone, to our mainframe at school.  The editor on the mainfram is Pico.
>Here is my problem.  Pico wants to automatically justify everything that
>comes in, which is irritating if you are sending a file pre-formatted to
>your specifications.  

Invoke pico with the -w command line option.  The lines that are too long
for your display will have a $ at the end.  You can see the end of the
line by moving the cursor past the right margin or by hitting ^e on the
line your cursor is on.  Go back to the beginning of the line with ^a. 
It's kind of unwieldy, as it just moves the display for that one line.

Barbara Vaughan