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Re: Summary (This is text/paragraph - how does it look?)

1998-03-11 09:52:59
At 9:33 AM -0600 3/11/98, Michael A Quinlan wrote:
Ned Freed seems to be claiming that, of the programs listed below, only
Netscape works correctly (because the others wrapped the lines).

Is this correct?

No.  The standard says "it should not be necessary" to wrap the text.  It
does not say that wrapping the text is forbidden.  So according to 2046
you're *allowed* to wrap text you receive, but not to *send* text that some
(unspecified) device must wrap to display.