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From: "Timm Murray" <hardburn@runbox.com>
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Subject: [gopher] Re: Width of text files
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> I still have to learn stuff about .names and other 'modification files',=
=20
> since I only know how to set up .links files, but I'll take my time :)
> The question is: how wide should I make the text files available via=20
> gopher? 80 columns?

80 col is the standard size for a console, so that should probably be the l=
ine length for text files. It should also be possible to modify servers to =
automatically adjust line lengths.