Subj : Desired Living Document (section): Author Compliance
To : Rob Swindell
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Apr 14 2019 09:10 am
On 2019 Apr 14 01:32:20, you wrote to me:
ON>>> That would make ^aCOLS: 80^m make a little more sence ;)
ml>> i don't know... i understand it for what it is intended to be used
ml>> for but why do i want to display a message artifically restricted to
ml>> 80cols on my 125 character wide terminal?
RS> Sorry, but you don't understand the intention of those control line
RS> then. I'd be happy to discuss it.
maybe i don't fully understand it, then... why would i or my terminal care
about the width of the original writer's screen if we're not going to use that
value on our end some how?
)\/(ark
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