Re: Line Wrapping Question

Ned Freed <NED@innosoft.com> Fri, 09 February 1996 18:04 UTC

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From: Ned Freed <NED@innosoft.com>
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Subject: Re: Line Wrapping Question
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> I'm posting this in behalf of Alain Fontaine, because his original message
> got blocked by one of our loop-detection algorithms.

> > Maybe the confusion comes from the use of 'unformatted'. text/plain is
> > not unformatted ; on the contrary, it is very rigidly formatted by the
> > line breaks it contains.

As a matter of fact I noticed this myself late last night. You're absolutely
right -- "unformatted" here means "there are no formatting commands in the
text" and this is easily confused with "this isn't formatted now and needs to
be formatted before it is displayed".

I will change this in the next iteration of the specification and make the
meaning clearer.

				Ned