Re: Comments on draft-resnick-2822upd-02.txt

Charles Lindsey asks:

> Where did that '78' come from? I am aware of lots of systems that do
> horrid things such as you mention if there are 80 characters in a line,
> but I am aware of none where problems arise with exactly 79. . . .

78 characters plus a <cr><lf> pair make 80 characters.  A 79 
character line would be 81 and some displays advance to a new 
line after 80 resulting in double spaced text.

-- Gary Welles