Re: Bad Armour Headers

David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com> Thu, 05 January 2006 19:22 UTC

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Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:06:06 -0500
From: David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
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Subject: Re: Bad Armour Headers
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On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:45:24AM -0800, vedaal@hush.com wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:01:55 -0800 David Shaw 
> <dshaw@jabberwocky.com> wrote:
> 
> >Whatever (reasonable) magic number is used as the maximum number 
> of 
> >columns, I am confident there is a word wrap setting that will 
> clobber >it.
> 
> but, as Ian pointed out, if the maximum number of columns is 
> limited to the minimum number of columns in an armored message 
> (i.e., 64 characters)
> then any 'wrap' that accepts the message block, would have no 
> problems
> with the comment or version lines,

That is not true.  Armor does not allow spaces, so it's essentially a
64 character long "word".  Most editors only break on spaces.  They
won't break words to wrap them.

David