Thank you, but I don't understand why that guy that is reading the mail with pine ask the others to wrap the lines and not to send very long lines. Maybe there is a configuration in pine that he doesn't know? Teddy, orasnita at home.ro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 6:05 PM Subject: Re: Does Pine wrap lines? > > On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > > > I hope pine can wrap the lines in a received message. > > It does. But, it obviously can't do that for someone who isn't > using Pine to read their mail. So, if you're talking about > sending mail to other people, it isn't Pine's job to fix their > problems for them. That job belongs to the mail agent they choose > to use to read their mail with. In other words, it might be an > Outlook problem, or a Eudora problem, or a mutt problem, or a > Pegesys problem, etc., etc. > > > > > Thanks. > > Teddy, > > orasnita at home.ro > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:33 PM > > Subject: Re: Does Pine wrap lines? > > > > > > > > > > Octavian: > > > > > > Are you saying that the person using Pine finds lines too long? > > > Or, are you saying that some people who get mail from those of us > > > who use Pine are having trouble with long lines? > > > > > > I think the latter is true. Pine's composer pico, does not > > > arbitrarily wrap lines at some particular position before handing > > > the message off to the mail transport agent. It is considered to > > > be the responsibility of the user agent to wrap appropriately for > > > local conditions. This strategy supports that well--you can havew > > > 65 chars per line, and I can have 138, and the messages look > > > good. If the sending agent were to arbitrarily set a line length > > > of 75 and terminate, then both my 138 and your 65 user agents > > > would show messy messages. > > > > > > I believe this is actually the correct behavior, but I haven't > > > checked the RFC for the correct standard on the subject. Does > > > anyone know off hand? > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I've seen some messages on another list telling that the line is too > > long in > > > > a message. > > > > The guy is using pine. > > > > Doesn't pine wrap the lines that are longer than the screen width? > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > Teddy, > > > > orasnita at home.ro > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Janina Sajka, Director > > > Technology Research and Development > > > Governmental Relations Group > > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > > > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > > > > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > > > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > > > http://www.openebook.org > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
