When Fetch prompts you for a name to give a retrieved text file it also displays a check box titled Convert to Filled Paragraphs. If this box is checked many of the line-endings of the file will be removed. This will have the effect of converting many short lines into a few long ones, namely one line per paragraph. This is the format preferred by Macintosh word processors, since it allows them to set the line-endings according to the current margin or window size.
This option is only appropriate if the text in question is made up of paragraphs. Tables, computer programs, and other more exotic text files may be garbled by this conversion. Therefore it is usually best not to set this option.
