Re: [Pan-users] Why does this sig appear twice?

[Graham P Davis]

On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:08:32 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:

> On 04/09/2011 09:55 AM, Graham P Davis wrote:
>> Just for starters, here's the same file but posting via knode. More to
>> follow.  ;-)
>>
>> --
> Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. E-mail: change boy to man
>  > To consider the Earth the only populated world in infinite space
>> is as
>> absurd as to assert that in an entire field sown with millet only one
>> grain
>> will grow. - Metrodoros, 300BC
> 
> Notice the line wrap.  (This is how I see it on Thunderbird, because I
> have line wrap set, properly, at 72 characters.)  Several years ago,
> when I first started with Pan I found a sigmonster program, built a list
> of quotes (based on my old, Windows-based Usenet program) and started
> using it.  I too had a problem with doubled sigs, but not always.  We
> finally found that if Pan has to wrap your sig to make it fit, it
> doubles it.  Once we'd found that, I edited the file to make sure all of
> the quotes were "72 character compliant" and never worried about it
> again.  Try doing the same and see if it fixes the issue.

Thanks, it did fix the problem. I thought 76 was the limit, I suppose 
because that's the default for Knode. I've had a look at TB3 and that 
seems to use 71 as a limit. 

I suppose this all dates back to punched cards and columns 73-80 being 
used for sequence-numbering. Looking at a Fortran card, that leaves 
column 72 available but for JCL, any non-blank character in that column 
means continuation follows. Looks like TB was based on a JCL card.  ;-)


-- 
Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. E-mail: change boy to man
To consider the Earth the only populated world in infinite space is as
absurd as to assert that in an entire field sown with millet only one
grain will grow. - Metrodoros, 300BC