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Re: Wrapping lines, was Re: BTRFS and debian

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On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 10:10:01PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 14 Jul 2018 at 19:50:03 (+1000), Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 05:59:58PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> > > On 07/13/18 16:36, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 07:53:01PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> > > > > While a brutal analogy, it makes a point that can be applied to all
> > > > > computers -- devise strategies, invest in resources, and implement
> > > > > procedures that facilitate system roll-out, migration, and disaster
> > > > > recovery.  This is a goal I have pursued over the years.
> > > > 
> > > > zfs send (and of course filesystem snaphotting) ftw!
> > > > (I'm just learning about zfs btw, intending a home rollout in the
> > > > coming weeks.)
> > > 
> > > ZFS is killer technology.  zfs-fuse is sawed off.  ZOL rocks, but the license keeps it out of Debian.  We'll see if
> > > and when btrfs catches up.
> > 
> > (Do you know why your mail client (or perhaps server) wraps at 115
> > chars? 72 or 69 or even 80 would be much better...)
> 
> Your own mail client is doing this. You need to find out how to set
> the wrapping value. In mutt, you might add the line
> 
> set	reflow_wrap=80

Sweet!

Very informative. Daŋkə schön :)


> to your configuration file. (Seems unlikely though, as your client
> appears not to report itself, as mutt would do.)
> 
> What's actually contained in David's email is:
> 
> "ZFS is killer technology.  zfs-fuse is sawed off.  ZOL rocks, but the "
> "license keeps it out of Debian.  We'll see if and when btrfs catches up."
> 
> (I put the quotation marks round each line.) Note the space at the end
> of the first line, which indicates that the next line is a continuation
> of this one.
> 
> Why is this happening? Because David's email header contains:
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
> 
> It's the format=flowed that's making *your* email client reflow
> the text as required, but unfortunately to ~115 character lines
> rather than what you would prefer.
> 
> Cheers,
> David.
> 

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  Re: BTRFS and debian Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2018-07-09 21:40 +0200
    Re: BTRFS and debian Ulf Volmer <u.volmer@u-v.de> - 2018-07-09 22:00 +0200
      Re: BTRFS and debian Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-07-09 23:00 +0200
        Re: BTRFS and debian Ulf Volmer <u.volmer@u-v.de> - 2018-07-09 23:10 +0200
      Re: BTRFS and debian Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2018-07-09 23:40 +0200
  Re: BTRFS and debian David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-07-10 05:40 +0200
    Re: BTRFS and debian Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-07-11 20:40 +0200
      Re: BTRFS and debian David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-07-12 05:10 +0200
        Re: BTRFS and debian Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-07-12 07:50 +0200
          Re: BTRFS and debian David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-07-13 03:20 +0200
            Re: BTRFS and debian Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-07-14 00:40 +0200
              Re: BTRFS and debian David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-07-14 03:00 +0200
                Re: BTRFS and debian Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-07-14 11:10 +0200
                Re: BTRFS and debian David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-07-14 21:40 +0200
                Re: BTRFS and debian Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-07-14 23:10 +0200
            Re: BTRFS and debian Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-07-14 01:40 +0200
    Re: BTRFS and debian David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-12 20:00 +0200
      Re: BTRFS and debian David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-07-13 05:00 +0200
        Re: BTRFS and debian Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-07-13 12:00 +0200
          Re: BTRFS and debian <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-07-13 12:30 +0200
          Re: BTRFS and debian David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-07-14 03:10 +0200
        Re: BTRFS and debian Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-07-14 01:40 +0200
          Re: BTRFS and debian David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-07-14 03:10 +0200
            Re: BTRFS and debian Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-07-14 12:00 +0200
              Re: BTRFS and debian Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-07-14 12:30 +0200
                Re: BTRFS and debian Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-07-14 12:40 +0200
              Wrapping lines, was Re: BTRFS and debian David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-15 05:20 +0200
                Re: Wrapping lines, was Re: BTRFS and debian Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-07-15 05:30 +0200
                Re: Wrapping lines, was Re: BTRFS and debian Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-07-15 12:30 +0200
        Re: BTRFS and debian Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-07-14 11:40 +0200

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