Re: New compression method by Garmin

From: Ivor Jones (ivor_at_despammed.invalid)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:36:19 -0000

Brian Morrison wrote:
> Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
>
>>> <snip tesxt with unfeasibly long line length>
>>
>>> Would you like to repost that after first setting your line
>>> length to a more reasonable 72 chars?
>>
>> Gomez,
>>
>> press the letter O on your newsreader Agent to wrap the lines to
>> your window width.
>>
>> Since the sender cannot know the recipient's window width, the
>> more intelligent solution can only be that the receiver wraps.
>
> I always thought that the intelligent solution was for the poster to
> arrange to wrap their text at about 72 characters so anyone could
> read it on any terminal, but perhaps I'm living in a halcyon past
> that no longer exists...

Looks that way. I occasionally use a dumb RS232 terminal which has a fixed
80-column width (yes, really..!) so long lines are a pain in the neck.

Ivor

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