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Re: Line Wrapping Question

Jim Conklin <conklin@info.cren.net> Fri, 09 February 1996 16:24 UTC

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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 10:49:48 +0100
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From: Jim Conklin <conklin@info.cren.net>
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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.

>Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 09:28:48 +0100
>To: <ietf-822@list.cren.net>
>From: fontaine@sri.ucl.ac.be (Alain Fontaine)
>Subject: Re: Line Wrapping Question
>
>At 10:22 96/8/02, Ned Freed wrote:
>>  text -- textual information.  The subtype "plain" in particular
>>indicates plain
>>  (unformatted) text.  No special software is required to get the full
>>meaning of
>>  the text, aside from support for the indicated character set.
>
>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.
>
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