Re: [PATCH] wall: wrap message header when it exceeds 79 characters

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Hmmm...  It seems to me that there's an interface issue.  If you're
*sure* that the message will always be consumed by a human, wrapping
is the nice thing to do.  But if the message will sometimes have to be
extracted by an automaton, write the message without line breaks,
because it's a lot easier for a human to visually reassemble a long
line (wrapped by whatever the display container is) than it is for a
program to discern that two lines are part of the same message.

Dale
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