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From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: gawk 4.1.4: CR separate char for CRLF files
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 22:49:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f405bd91-17d8-6728-99be-e76cc4edd41e@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <598cdca9.d537ca0a.75cd0.493f@mx.google.com>

On 2017-08-10 16:22, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 15:34:11, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> It is flowed format with quoted breaks, which I see reassembled and wrapped in
>> the window by Thunderbird with no issues:
> 
> Thats great, but it doesnt do that with Firefox, and it doesnt do that with
> Internet Explorer. So for people reading the mailing list via the archives
> (read: me), each line just scrolls off the page until OP decides to break for a
> paragraph.

Many archives and sites display lines off the right margin instead of allowing
them to wrap as normal in HTML. Possibly using pre format style without
horizontal scrollbars instead of just specifying a monospace font style. That
makes it a site or converter design issue!

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-10 22:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-08 23:16 Jannick
2017-08-08 23:23 ` Steven Penny
2017-08-09  0:49   ` Jannick
2017-08-09  7:03     ` AW: " Roger Krebs
2017-08-09  8:38       ` Jannick
2017-08-09 11:03         ` Eric Blake
2017-08-09 19:09           ` Eric Blake
2017-08-10 12:04             ` cyg Simple
2017-08-10 12:31               ` David Macek
2017-08-10 14:46                 ` cyg Simple
2017-08-10 18:35                   ` Steven Penny
2017-08-10 21:34                     ` Brian Inglis
2017-08-10 21:49                       ` cyg Simple
2017-08-10 22:49                         ` Brian Inglis
2017-08-11 12:47                           ` cyg Simple
2017-08-11 16:54                             ` Brian Inglis
2017-08-11 17:06                               ` cyg Simple
2017-08-10 22:22                       ` Steven Penny
2017-08-10 22:49                         ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2017-08-10 23:59                           ` Steven Penny
2017-08-11  7:15                             ` format=flowed issues [Was: gawk 4.1.4: CR separate char for CRLF files] David Macek
2017-08-11 13:25                               ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-08-11 16:51                                 ` Brian Inglis
2017-09-19  2:32                                 ` Brian Inglis
2017-08-14 10:36 gawk 4.1.4: CR separate char for CRLF files Vermessung AVT - Wolfgang Rieger
2017-08-15 15:41 ` Jannick
2017-08-15 16:43 ` Achim Gratz
2017-08-16 12:09 Vermessung AVT - Wolfgang Rieger
2017-08-16 12:26 ` Eric Blake
2017-08-16 12:19 Vermessung AVT - Wolfgang Rieger
2017-08-16 12:50 cyg Simple

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