Re: [gutvol-d] Talking about TXT

On Sat, 29 Oct 2011, Greg M. Johnson wrote:

But I am wondering who wins the elimination round between: i) PG's current format for "TXT" with 80 chars ii) a format that is still all ASCII but removes all the end-of-column CR's, and only has double returns at the end of paragraphs.

IMO, this ii) wins 100% hands down for "convenient time on the screen for reading the thing", based on software that everyone has right now.

I recall reading ages ago that there were heated discussion about this in earlier days of PG (probably 1990s). I wonder what reasoning was used to settle on the txt-less-than-80 format... --Andrew