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Message no. 1
From: dbuehrer@****.org (David Buehrer)
Subject: 80+ Column Postings
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 07:56:59 -0700 (MST)
Neon Sihn wrote:
|
| i would think it would be a decker.... and she probably isn't controlling the security
so much
|as controlling/organizing the response to detected questionable input (you)... one person

|running the security system is against most corps policy, they trust software not meat.
a lot of
|corps also use deckers to cruise in and out of their systems keeping an eye out for
hackers
|and the like, they can sometimes spot (and deal with) events that the software isn't
programmed

This is a personal plea. My screen is only 80 columns wide (the company I
work for is cheap :). I have a really hard time trying to read and respond
to posts which are wider then that (like the one above) because my mailer
doesn't always display the stuff beyond the 80th column. If postings could
be trimmed to 80 columns or less I would really appreciate it.

Thanks
-David

BTW, is there a way to fix this for ELM using UNIX? Since this question is
not ShadowRN related please respond to me personally.

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Message no. 2
From: Mike Loseke <mike@***.sc.colostate.edu>
Subject: Re: 80+ Column Postings
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 09:05:06 -0700
David Buehrer wrote:
>
> This is a personal plea. My screen is only 80 columns wide (the company I
> work for is cheap :). I have a really hard time trying to read and respond
> to posts which are wider then that (like the one above) because my mailer
> doesn't always display the stuff beyond the 80th column. If postings could
> be trimmed to 80 columns or less I would really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks
> -David
>
> BTW, is there a way to fix this for ELM using UNIX? Since this question is
> not ShadowRN related please respond to me personally.

Try using a different pager than the builtin pager. I won't guarantee that
it'll work but more or pg (depending on system and term type) sometimes
fix things like this.

This sounded like a few people might benefit so I put this back on the list.

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Message no. 3
From: dbuehrer@****.org (David Buehrer)
Subject: Re: 80+ Column Postings
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 11:43:41 -0700 (MST)
Mike Loseke wrote:
|
|David Buehrer wrote:
|>
|> This is a personal plea. My screen is only 80 columns wide (the company I
|> work for is cheap :). I have a really hard time trying to read and respond
|> to posts which are wider then that (like the one above) because my mailer
|> doesn't always display the stuff beyond the 80th column. If postings could
[snip]
|> BTW, is there a way to fix this for ELM using UNIX? Since this question is
|> not ShadowRN related please respond to me personally.
|
|Try using a different pager than the builtin pager. I won't guarantee that
|it'll work but more or pg (depending on system and term type) sometimes
|fix things like this.
|
|This sounded like a few people might benefit so I put this back on the list.

I got it fixed. After a lot of searching I found out I could set
pager=builtin++ in my elmrc file and that seems to have fixed the problem.
Just in case anyone else might find this to be beneficial I'm posting it to
the list. To everyone for whom this is irrelavent I apologize for taking up
your time with this.

Thanks Mike

-David

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Message no. 4
From: westec@******.COM (Neon Sihn)
Subject: Re: 80+ Column Postings
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 00:48:05 -0600
>This is a personal plea. My screen is only 80 columns wide (the company I
>work for is cheap :). I have a really hard time trying to read and respond
>to posts which are wider then that (like the one above) because my mailer
>doesn't always display the stuff beyond the 80th column. If postings could
>be trimmed to 80 columns or less I would really appreciate it.



hmmmm..... I noticed some of that when I got some postings back thru
the list... I've cut down the margins considerably in anticipation of
your "plea"....




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Message no. 5
From: Robert Watkins <robertdw@*******.com.au>
Subject: Re: 80+ Column Postings
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 03:08:58 +1100 (EST)
>> This is a personal plea. My screen is only 80 columns wide (the company I
>> work for is cheap :). I have a really hard time trying to read and respond
>> to posts which are wider then that (like the one above) because my mailer
>> doesn't always display the stuff beyond the 80th column. If postings could
>> be trimmed to 80 columns or less I would really appreciate it.
>
>Try using a different pager than the builtin pager. I won't guarantee that
>it'll work but more or pg (depending on system and term type) sometimes
>fix things like this.
>
>This sounded like a few people might benefit so I put this back on the list.

For that same reason, I'm posting here as well... in your elm options,
there's an option kind like "View with", or "Page by", or something.
Its
default value is "builtin+". Well... there's a special unix command
called 'fmt'. It's a pipeline command, so run it before the builtin. as
in "/bin/fmt | /bin/more", or something.


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Message no. 6
From: Mike Loseke <mike@***.sc.colostate.edu>
Subject: Re: 80+ Column Postings
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 09:58:36 -0700
Neon Sihn wrote:

> hmmmm..... I noticed some of that when I got some postings back thru
> the list... I've cut down the margins considerably in anticipation of
> your "plea"....

I've started doing the same thing. Since I've been using Netscape's beta
for mail I've been formatting my messages by not typing past the end of
my .signature. Just trying to do my bit!

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