[gutvol-d] Re: What is the intended use of TXT format-- why line breaks?

Michael S. Hart wrote:

There are all sorts of ways to remove hard returns in one second.

But no way to decide which ones to drop and which one to keep.

It takes more time to complain than to actually find one of these and use it. . . .

Actually nobody has yet come up with a satisfactory solution to this problem.

In many ways complainers have not evolved past Medieval Times.

Here we go again. Blaming your customers is still cheaper than fixing your bugs. I guess that's your only way out if you can't find a single argument to uphold the boneheaded plain text format that PG is still producing. And you can't find one, because there ain't one. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org