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Subject: [gopher] Re: Width of text files
From: "Timm Murray" <hardburn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:58:48 GMT
Reply-to: gopher@xxxxxxxxxxxx

>=20
> On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 11:19  AM, Timm Murray wrote:
> > 80 col is the standard size for a console, so that should probably be=
=20
> > the l=3D
> > ine length for text files. It should also be possible to modify servers=
=20
> > to =3D
> > automatically adjust line lengths.
>=20
> If that is done at all, I think it should be done on the client side.

I thought of that too, but it kinda breaks the tradition of "dumb client, s=
mart server".  I=20
guess it's just a question of how flexible that tradition should be.


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