On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 02:17:07PM +0000, Ian G wrote:
David Shaw wrote:
...
but, as Ian pointed out, if the maximum number of columns is
limited to the minimum number of columns in an armored message
(i.e., 64 characters)
then any 'wrap' that accepts the message block, would have no
problems
with the comment or version lines,
That is not true. Armor does not allow spaces, so it's essentially a
64 character long "word". Most editors only break on spaces. They
won't break words to wrap them.
The operative word there is 'most'. In email
for example, URLs that go over the length limit
are often sliced, hence some people send "tiny"
URLs.
Also, there is another artifact. Even if the
transporting app doesn't slice your armour lines
in half, it may insert extra lines or spaces as
if it was slicing it in half.
But again, it "may" also insert free-email ads in the middle or
pdf-ize the whole thing, or helpfully reformat into one long line.
Who is to say it can't?
So yes, "most" is indeed the operative word. If a new form of
corruption doesn't reach the most level, then this is a treadmill I'm
very reluctant to get on. For every potential brokenness we
conjecture and accomodate for, there will be some new form of mangling
that comes along.
David