Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <014501c465aa$a188a870$4e6510ac@ds.tao.co.uk> From: "William Blunn" To: References: <010701c464f4$398e2030$4e6510ac AT ds DOT tao DOT co DOT uk> <013301c464fe$e2e425d0$4e6510ac AT ds DOT tao DOT co DOT uk> <00aa01c4659f$662717e0$4e6510ac AT ds DOT tao DOT co DOT uk> <00bd01c465a8$815be190$0200000a AT agamemnon> Subject: Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?") Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 12:48:20 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i69BmV63001403 > Yeah it appears in ... [RFC1855] as "Be conservative in what you send > and liberal in what you receive.", just a few paragraphs above where > it recommends: > > "Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line with a > carriage return." Limiting line length to fewer than 65 characters is about being "conservative in what you send". My contention is about mail archivers being "liberal in what you [they] receive". Bill -- William Blunn Tao, 62/63 Suttons Business Park, Earley, Reading, RG6 1AZ, UK Tel: +44 845 644 4458, Fax: +44 845 644 4459, Web: http://tao-group.com/ -- 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/