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Article #10790

Re: Font menu SANITY!!

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From: Christopher Silverberg
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 1990 18:21
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In article <10953@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>> Philip Craig - via FidoNet node 1:282/33
>> UUCP: ...!uunet!imagery!22.27!Philip.Craig
>> ARPA: Philip.Craig@p27.f22.n282.z1.FIDONET.ORG

>I'm really getting tired of these messages that go flying off the right hand
>side of my screen.  Please put a return at the end of every line (and if
>your system can't do that, fix it).  I would hate to think that my opinion
>of FidoNet is adversely affected by such things...

I think it must be YOUR system, or your terminal setup causing the problems.
I haven't seen any messages that fly dont format appropriately across the
screen. If the message does not contain returns, then your terminal program
should autowrap appropriately. You're a mac person... you should know that.




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From: macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Christopher Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Font menu SANITY!!
Message-ID: <10017@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 90 18:21:55 GMT
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