negligible error in mined

[Bill Hacker]

Mathias Schacht wrote:

Bill Hacker wrote:

(mined 1024 char line limit..)
But which UNIX editors habitually create such files?


    I could create such files with ee.
Please don't!

    I stumbeled over the
    issue when I tried to minedit some Makefile in the ports
    tree, but I forgot which one.
Probably had ^M and such in it from WinWoes land also ... ;-)
- needs corrected at the 'source'.
So long as we are limited to the aspect ratio of the binocular
Mark One Human Eyeball for a toolset, readability is best served
by a more reasonable max width - VTXXX and other 130-column
displays, 'landscape' A4, the 35mm film format (purpose-selected
to match the sensitive area of human field of view, and nearly
100 years ago, at that [1]).  Well documented long before VESA. [2]
Bill

[1] 1913 or just before.

[2] 'The Leica Manual' Ernst Leitz, Wetzlar DE, 1950