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- From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
- Subject: Re: Mail formatting for < 75 columns wide (help on fmt_mail)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.104631.18662@cas.org>
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- Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
- Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 10:43:10 GMT
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- Well, yes and no to the fmt_mail and uuencode problem. The REAL problem is
- that the uuencode that Sun ships still uses blanks as valid characters.
- Upgrade to a newer uuencode - say one from the past 5 yrs or so - and
- that problem, as well as any potential problem with other special
- characters, should be fixed.
-
- There IS a problem though with fmt_mail wrapping things like included text
- or source file attachments . I am going to end up breaking down and doing
- something about this some day, when I figure out how to identify what text
- the user wants wrapped and what text s/he does not want wrapped.
-
- Many folks who use mailtool prefer to highlight the text to format and then
- use the textedit menu to do the formatting. My problem with that is the
- same with using that menu to add the .signature. It requires me to take
- extra steps with every email - and i have a lot of email to process.
-
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