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Re: gawk 4.1.4: CR separate char for CRLF files


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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