Re: Line wrap?

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From: Karl Fox
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 23:14

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peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

   In article <10183@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
   > Probably a better place to address this is in the Usenet news readers.
   > There is no good reason why they shouldn't be able to wrap lines
   > intelligently while showing you a message.

   What makes you think we *want* to change our software?

Well, what make you think we *don't*?  I would dearly *love* to have a
newsreader that I could use with proportional fonts and a lot narrower
column width than 80 bytes (I have an eye muscle problem that makes
very wide text hard to read).
--
Karl Fox, Morning Star Technologies               karl@MorningStar.COM

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From: karl@MorningStar.Com (Karl Fox)
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Subject: Re: Line wrap?
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Date: 13 Feb 90 23:14:35 GMT
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