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  • MANWIDTH=64 man man-pages | col -bx

    From Benny Pedersen@2:230/0 to Maurice Kinal on Sun Jun 8 14:48:32 2025
    Hello Maurice!

    31 May 2025 00:13, Maurice Kinal wrote to Maurice Kinal:

    Hej Maurice!

    MANWIDTH=72 man man-pages | col -bx

    works without error. 72 makes perfect sense for backwards
    compatibilty with ye olde line printers and the such. It definetly
    works for standard FTN MSGs.

    and 132 is missed on with printers

    missing my star printer with had this car width


    Regards Benny

    ... too late to die young :)

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  • From Maurice Kinal@2:280/464.113 to Benny Pedersen on Sun Jun 8 18:41:59 2025
    Hej Benny!

    and 132 is missed on with printers
    missing my star printer with had this car width

    I believe both the printers and corresponding form fed paper can still be found. At the moment I lack a 24-pin interface (aka parallel port) but I do have one machine with two 9-pin interfaces (aka serial port). I think the widest dot matrix printer I've used in the past used 24 inch wide form fed paper. I don't recall the interface it used but it was very, very fast. I can still hear the high pitch noise that it made.

    Het leven is goed,
    Maurice

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