Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <003101c4e126$05276050$4e6510ac@ds.tao.co.uk> From: "William Blunn" To: References: <010701c464f4$398e2030$4e6510ac@ds.tao.co.uk> <013301c464fe$e2e425d0$4e6510ac@ds.tao.co.uk> <41B9E7AD.7070606@tao-group.com> Subject: Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?") Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:11:28 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes > I was using Microsoft Outlook Express, which does not support > format=flowed. Turns out this is not entirely true. Outlook Express *does* have some support for format=flowed, but not as much as Thunderbird. Using the default setting of "Encode Text Using" = "None" (as opposed to "quoted-printable"), it will generate messages with format=flowed, and it will happily re-flow quoted replies so that they fit into the 78 (or whatever) columns. However, it does not re-flow format=flowed messages for display, which kind of wastes half of the point of format=flowed. I think this may be linked to the fact that it doesn't do anything clever with the way is displays quoted messages; you just see the original ">" characters. Thunderbird *does* re-flow format=flowed messages for display, and quoted messages are shown using quote bars. So Outlook Express with the default settings would be list-friendly but not user-friendly. But Thunderbird is list-friendly *and* user-friendly. (This message will be sent using Outlook Express with the default settings. It'll be interesting to see how it appears in the resultant e-mail, and also in the list web archive.) Bill -- The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received this e-mail and you are not a named addressee, please inform us as soon as possible on +44 118 901 2999 and then delete the e-mail from your system. If you are not a named addressee you must not copy, use, disclose, distribute, print or rely on this e-mail. Any views expressed in this e-mail or any attachments may not necessarily reflect those of Tao's management. Although we routinely screen for viruses, addressees should scan this e-mail and any attachments for viruses. Tao makes no representation or warranty as to the absence of viruses in this e-mail or any attachments. Please note that for the protection of our business, we may monitor and read e-mails sent to and from our server(s). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/