On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 02:54:17PM -0500, Shawn wrote:
> This message looks fine. Any email client "worth it's salt" has the
> ability to automatically wrap messages properly. Such as Evolution (the
> one I'm currently using) ;)
No, it's not fine. According to the C standard, lines in a "text" file
should have more no than 509 characters. The magic number 509 is an outgrowth
of the archaic and unsafe "char buf[512]; gets(buf);" coding practices,
coupled with Microsoft's #@#$! CR-NL nonsense.
This is not just theoretical, e.g. "fmt" is broken on Solaris 8 (*):
GNU:
$ gawk 'BEGIN {while(i++<513) printf "x "; printf "\n"; exit 0}' | fmt | wc -w
513
Solaris 8:
$ gawk 'BEGIN {while(i++<513) printf "x "; printf "\n"; exit 0}' | fmt | wc -w
512
Regards,
Bill Rugolsky
(*) Actually, most of the userland utils on Solaris are broken --
[k]sh, sort, join, vi, etc. On our Solaris systems we run GNU/Solaris. :-P
