Bill,
Manual typewriters never did, and Electric Typewriters did not until
the Electronic Typewriters came out on the market.
Not even the IBM Selectric I or II had word-wrap. Since I used to
work on the durn things for Remington .. I "should" know.
Sid N0OBM
At 07:35 PM 1/1/2006, you wrote:
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>At 03:01 PM 1/1/2006, John Becker wrote:
> >But the bigger problem, as I was telling Bill last
> >night is that it seems that a lot of the programs
> >will not send a CR LF till well after the 72nd character.
> >In fact most that I copy will pound a hole in the
> >paper on the right hand edge.
> >
> >Sure must key a boat load of keyboards out there
> >that ain't got no * enter * key ! !
>
>
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>
>Right you are. Trouble is, with a computer you don't need an "enter"
>key. It's called word wrap and most all programs do it by default. I
>wonder why TTY machines don't have it. Many typewriters do.
>
>73, Bill W6WRT
>
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