Re: 80-columns and EMAIL

Arpad writes:

> One more comment on the 80-column issue. The IBIS files should not only be
> human readable but easy to transfer via EMAIL.

> We need to consider that some EMAIL softwares automatically wrap long lines and
> not only wrap but add an extra symbol to the beginning of the wrapped line to
> indicate that it was wrapped. Now, imagine you get an ibis file that is several
> thousand lines long, full with such automatically added trash in it.

> Are you going to edit it manually, or write a program to put it back to it's
> original format?

> CCMAIL does this, and there were times when I could not use electronically
> received SPICE model files for this reason.

If we had to constrain our design to something that every existing system
was capable of handling without any problems we would be sorely constrained.
I sugest that any mail system with such properties should be trashed. As a
work-around for those forced to use such things uuencode should solve the
problem.

Chris
Received on Tue Dec 14 05:45:58 1993