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Re: Do we ever retire packages?



dwarf@polaris.net (Dale Scheetz)  wrote on 30.08.96 in <Pine.LNX.3.94.960830095652.2399D-100000@dwarf.polaris.net>:

> On 29 Aug 1996, Kai Henningsen wrote:
>
> > lukas@teorica0.ifisicacu.unam.mx (Lukas Nellen)  wrote on 27.08.96 in
> > <[🔎] 199608272232.RAA15842@snork.ifisicacu.unam.mx>:
> >
> > > Please don't do that. Personally, I am used to a2ps and I'm a lot more
> > > attached to my habits than to genscript :-). And I don't see why we
> > > should retire a package just because some other package with similar
> > > functionality is provided. Think of the differ
> >
> > Umm ... there's something wrong with your mailer, it seems. Looks like
> > paragraphs longer that around 256 chars don't work.
> >
> Well, actually it's probably a problem with your mail system. I got the
> whole paragraph without truncation.

I've investigated further, and it's both.

He seems to have sent his paragraph as a single, very long line, which is  
definitely wrong. And some program here truncated that long line, which is  
also wrong.

I'll be working on my end of the problem.

MfG Kai



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