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to: MAURICE KINAL
from: NICHOLAS BOEL
date: 2016-04-08 12:16:00
subject: Re: something different

Hello Maurice,

On 08 Apr 16 16:38, Maurice Kinal wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 MK> Hey Nicholas!

 MK> If you have curl onboard try this to see if your coreutils fold app is
 MK> utf8 capable;

 MK>   curl ftp://184.69.113.90:15243/fidonet/squirrels.ansi | fold -s -w
 MK> $COLUMNS

 MK> where $COLUMNS is the character width of your screen.  On my terminal
 MK> it is an actual enviroment variable and in the case of the machine I
 MK> am typing this message on is 106.  The wrapping is perfect btw using
 MK> the above curl line.  Your milage may vary.

Where is it supposed to wrap, exactly? Looks like my current setup is using 193
columns.

Regards,
Nick

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