[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[AEF]

On Dec 27, 12:50 pm, Kenneth Fairfield <ken.fairfi... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Saturday, December 24, 2011 6:33:57 AM UTC-8, Paul Sture wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:55:48 -0800, Kenneth Fairfield wrote:
>
> > > Sorry for all the typos & wrong word errors in my last two posts in
> > > spite of attempts to proof read before posting.  I *hate* web text forms
> > > (I'm constrained...don't ask)!
>
> > Each paragraph is coming out as one line in your posts.  As AEF suggests,
> > you could use another editor and copy/paste the results into the form.
>
> Oh crap!  VAXman is probably going to tell me I've been posting
> "quoted-pukable" as well, sigh...
>
> > I don't like Notepad, but it was still better at giving me the format I
> > wanted than Outlook, where I was similarly constrained.
>
> I'm doing this reply in Notepad (using the FF add-on "It's All
> Text" to edit the web form.  Notepad doesn't understand the line
> terminators that FF hands to it, so I have to split the lines by
> hand, etc.  I'd prefer Wordpad, but *it* wants to write RTF files,
> which isn't so great either.

Not sure why you're getting this. Sometimes Notepad has lines that
don't wrap, but I can't duplicate that using Google Groups. You can
try checking Word Wrap under the Format menu.

Wordpad has a text mode. Press ^N to start a new document and choose
text mode.

>
> Anyway, thanks, Paul, for pointing out the error of my ways (at
> least this one :-).  Repeated apologies to those who had the
> patience to wrap the long lines and read what I wrote...
>
>     -Ken

AEF