Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: APPLE2-L list Message-ID: <8807092134.aa00400@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Date: 10 Jul 88 02:17:51 GMT References:Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 30 > Is it possible to get an 80 column version of the Apple2-L >servers list? I got an old list and find that it wraps around some >lines and that throws the printer off. Thanks in advance. The short answer to the question is no. LISTSERV has no facility for sending files in a line length other than what is stored. The INDEX file (APPLE2-L FILELIST) is a Print format (133 character) file. Frankly, it has some IBMish file information that I could do without too, but what you see is what you get. Sadly, we have no control over the format used to stre information about files contributed to the list. The file can be sent in an 80 column format known as LPUNCH, but that is a "wrapped around" file with coding in the first couple of columns that permits you to write your own utility for restoring the original file lengths (send any LISTSERV the command INFO LPUNCH and it'll send you a file describing the LPUNCH format). Dot matrix printers can print 133 character files on an 80 column carriage using "compressed type" (that's why the compressed size is 17.6 characters per inch - or whatever). Murph Sewall Sewall@UCONNVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe - mcvax} !UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] -+- My employer isn't responsible for my mistakes AND vice-versa! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) "It might help if we ran the MBA's out of Washington." - Adm Grace Hopper