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Re: Line wrapping in lugnet.cad.dat files
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Date: 
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 07:38:47 GMT
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On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 06:48:45 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
wrote:

legoverse@geocities.com (Terry K) writes:

Todd,

I just noticed that the system seems to be wrapping long lines in dat
files.
After posting two small dat's I tested them and found that the last
line of one of them would not render, so I checked it out.  The
original file is OK, but the lugnet version is wrapped. See:
http://lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.cad.dat:50

Any chance of fixing the code so it keeps lines intact?

Nope.  lugnet.cad.dat:50 was posted through your newsreader rather than the
web interface or the e-mail gateway.  (The 'X-Nntp-Posting-Host' header says
146.phoenix-05-10rs.az.dial-access.att.net rather than
http://www.lugnet.com/news/post/ or a gateway address), so the problem is at
your end.  You seem to be using Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235, so go to the
Options/Posting_Preferences dialog and set the Line Length field to 999
before posting .dat content -- then set it back to 76 or whatever you have
it set to normally.

You mean it's _MY_ problem?  :-)
Thanks, I will fix that lickety-split.

Related question, can posters cancel messages?
I hit "Cancel Usenet Message" in Free Agent, but all it seems to do is
want to post a message with "cancel" in the subject line.  Will this
work, or will it just post a new message? I chose not to send it, BTW.
I thought I might be able to cancel the offending post, delete some
excess zeros in that last line, and repost so it is not line-wrapped.

Yup, that's how newsreaders cancel things -- they send a special control
message inside a new article and the server figures out what to do.

OK, I will try canceling and resubmitting the file.
Thanks again,

-- Terry K --



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(...) Nope. lugnet.cad.dat:50 was posted through your newsreader rather than the web interface or the e-mail gateway. (The 'X-Nntp-Posting-Host' header says 146.phoenix-05-10rs....ss.att.net rather than (URL) or a gateway address), so the problem is (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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