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From: Adam Vardy <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Desterm double space problem
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 11:04:00 -0330 (NST)
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    <I am responding to a message about text captured into Desterm's
buffer being double spaced.  Unfortunately, I can't quote from the
previous message because I don't know how to use my news reader
program to post or reply to messages.  This is posted by e-mail. >

     Bob Masse said that you could go to the buffer menu and select
Strip control codes.  This does not solve the problem.  In fact,
Desterm is set to Strip them by default.  Someone else said you
could go to the file transfer menu and change CR/LF to CR.  This
doesn't work either.

     What I've found is that, when using Lynx, anything captured
into Desterm's buffer always ends up double spaced.  This turned
out to be not so much of a problem for me when I found out that I
could download lynx documents.  But when using any other Unix
program, anything captured into the buffer is always utterly
garbled.  This is totally annoying!  Usually I just have to write
down anything I read that I want to remember.

     I've asked other people about this, but I have not found any
solution.  (I have not been able to transmit the buffer with
Desterm either.  Otherwise I would have transmitted the text
of the messages to which I am responding, garbled though they would
be.)

     I am sure other people must have some way of retaining info
from the Net, besides IBM users.  ??


- A.V.
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