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> An 80 column text looks terrible when patched or quoted so as to be
> wider, but still shown on an 80 column window.  Consequently, an 80

That's tru for text but much less for code because the length of
the lines is typically a lot more variable, so if the whole
code fits within 80 columns, that means that typically very few lines
will overflow after quoting.


	Stefan