On 2019 Apr 14 19:54:54, you wrote to me:

 ml>> maybe i don't fully understand it, then... why would i or my terminal
 ml>> care about the width of the original writer's screen if we're not
 ml>> going to use that value on our end some how?

 SD> Perhaps for formatting reasons such as a table or somesuch?  I don't
 SD> really know either.  I'd never heard of the COLS kludge until this
 SD> conversation.

it is brand new ;)

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