Answering msg from Paul Edwards to rowan_crowe,
on Wednesday November 22 1995 at 22:20

 PE>> If you had saved it to a file, it shouldn't have looked messy.

 r>> I did, and it did. The first line is over 80 characters, even.

 PE> The first line is exactly 80 characters plus the newline.

...

 PE> They are > 80 characters long, so may not look very nice.  It's
 PE> probably your dicky mail reader getting in the way.  Too smart
 PE> for it's own good.  BFN.  Paul.

And several mail readers or software will wrap it like this ... I generally
try to keep code within 70 characters width if I plan to be posting it via
ftn.


32 20 33 2E 33 2E 61 31 0D 01 53 4F 54 3A 0D 2F  2 3.3.a1úúSOT:ú/
2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A  ****************
2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A  ****************
2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A  ****************
2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A  ****************
2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2A 2F 0D  **************/ú
2F 2A 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  /*

[ASCII 250 replaces "non printable" characters]


That's how it arrived here. Note the *hard* CR in the middle of the line.
Maybe you should check just in case *your* dicky software is exporting it
like that. :)

(Jelly-Bean does not do any reformatting on import at all, and the above
comes from the raw messagebase).

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