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On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 11:19  AM, Timm Murray wrote:
> 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.

If that is done at all, I think it should be done on the client side.

-- John