John,

Appearently, your webTV software does its own editing. I've grabbed your source code on the typed message and here's how it looks.

<P>No. Not at all. I don't have an enter button
<BR>function with my WebTV keyboard. I type on a 25"
<BR>screen and when I read my own messages they look
<BR>just fine. I know that when I read Allan Myers'
<BR>posts (and a few others) there would be one complete
<BR>line, three words, and then another complete line.
<BR>Most all important posts I submit are printed out by
<BR>one or two people on this bb and mailed to me at the
<BR>end of each month...and all are exactly as I type
<BR>them. You're the first to mention this.
<P>TEST:
<P>Is this text all on one line or is as you say it is?
<BR>(The above filled up my screen.)
<P>Is this text all one one line?
<P>Is this text all on one line and also on the line
<BR>directly below.
<BR>("directly below") is on second line on my sctrrn.
<P>Is anyone else seeing what Rich is?
<P>Thanks,
<P>JB
<P>

Here is how Don's reply is formatted.

<P>I think the difference, John, is that with your TV screen, there are only about 50 characters per line. Those board readers who have big high res screens and use proportional spacing screen fonts see many more characters per line, maybe 150 or so. Your software seems to make each of your input lines a line with a CR at the end, so most people see your messages as a lot of 50 character lines of type. Looks like a newspaper column, but not really a problem from my point of view.
<P>I have more of a problem with Archie's big postings that have 75 lines of wide text with no indents or carriage returns <g>.
<P>DonL
</FONT></P>

Notice how he gets many more characters prior before any HTML are inserted. Appearently your WebTV screen software creates an automatic "Break"<BR> when it reaches the end of your screen.

THEN AGAIN MAYBE NOT your reply to Don didn't configure your typing the same. Here's the code. Since you got a very long line typed this time. Are you sure you weren't hitting enter at the end of each line you typed when it hit the end of your viewing screen?

<P>Thanks, Don, I can live with that. <g>
<BR>Btw, I used your 80-pocket stock book to show a small Nevada collection at FUN last week and it was quite a pleasure having done so. Worked really great; easy handleing, with a compact presentation having fast access for inspection.
<P>JB