18 Nov 16 14:52, you wrote to you:

 MK>> Note that all the echo calls are one line or at least were when they
 MK>> left here.

 MK> I hate to be the one to tell you this but the entire message got
 MK> tampered with somewhere along the line.

it arrived in perfect shape over here... i was able to view it with no
problem... long lines and all... when i saved it to disk, though, the lines did
get wrapped but that was an easy three second edit before marking it executable
and running it...

 MK> On the plus side, at least it made it through the loop although I am
 MK> not convinced it is worth it given the obvious mess made of it.
 MK> :::sigh:::

dunno what mess you're speaking of... it is possible that what you are seeing
is the result of the system you are reading it on performing formatting on it
when presenting it for display... some systems do that while others do not...
most of the display formatting stuff happens if there is a line longer than
some pre-determined right margin... in general that's column 75... some
software tries to be too smart for its own good...

)\/(ark

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