Re: ANNOUNCE: PC Yarn v0.91 - SOUP offline reader for MS-DOS and OS/2

Sasa Boink Blink Blink Shalunov Bonk Bonk (who.am.i@io.org)
Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:45:00 -0400

Tue, 18 Jun 1996 16:14:16 -0500 (CDT),
Richard Steiner <rsteiner@skypoint.com> wrote:
>You referring to the DOS version? I have something like 2400 messages in
>my POSTED folder at this point (which gets a bit awkward 'cuz it takes a

Hehe, me too. Pesky how them posted/mailed folders just keep getting
bigger, and bigger. and bigger... AND BIGGER. People complain about the
news.dat growing too bit... secondary problem compared to the posted/mailed
folders growing out of control here.

I *NEED* Chin to put in code which can read my mind and figure out which
messages i wanted to keep and which to discard for me automatically. Please
please please! (-; It's so tedius going though them, i just leave it... and
it grows.. pretty soon my whole partition will be these two folders!

>> Could I _beg_ for the inclusion of a switch which sets the right margin
>> for quoted text and Yarn wraps at that point?
>
>How would you handled embedded quote characters? I'd love to see this,
>particularly if it was intelligent enough to wrap only the first-level

Yep 1.6 does this, but *very* unintelligently. About as unintelligently as
is possible. (-:

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