Re: Re: Control Panel
  By: Nightfox to Tony Langdon on Fri Jul 19 2019 09:50 am

 >   Re: Re: Control Panel
 >   By: Tony Langdon to Digital Man on Fri Jul 19 2019 05:06 pm
 >
 >  DM>> It looked fine here on Vertrauen. The "COLS" (columns) header field
 >  DM>> allowed Synchronet to nicely re-wrap the message text for my
 >  DM>> (currently) 80-column terminal.
 >
 >  TL> Not working offline. 
 >
 > I imagine the problem is that offline mail readers don't have the logic to
 > look at the COLS header field and re-wrap accordingly.  I'm not sure if all
 > the same header fields would be there for offline mail readers, either..  I
 > never used offline mail readers very much though.

QWK and QWKE standards don't include the Synchronet-specific HEADERS.DAT file,
which is where the COLS field would be found (if a reader wanted to use it). I
think offline readers should be able to support long-line-paragraphs ("flowed"
format) though. Have you thought about changing SlyEdit to use a flowed output
format?

                                            digital man

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