[GreenKeys] Tell me about TTY Line Length

[Paul Heller]

Funny timing. I am in a separate email conversation with others about a different topic (ITTY related) and one rationale for 68 characters was just shared, as originally written by George Hutchison to Tom Tillson:

Tom

... ITTY format is somewhat strict in that the lines must be no more than 69 characters long (helps TTY enthusiasts who live in foreign countries with shorter TTY line length standards) and should be submitted in a plain-text format as opposed to html or Microsoft's .Doc or .Rtf formats.

George

“foreign countries with shorter TTY line length standards”. Seems reasonable to me.

(Thanks to Tom for digging out this rather old exchange between he and George)


Paul
W2TTY
i-Telex: 80003

ITTY:  		HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8000/ITTY
ITTY100:  	HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8010/ITTY100
AUTOSTART:  HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8030/AUTOSTART
EUROPE: 	HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8040/EUROPE


> On Apr 16, 2020, at 1:28 PM, ad7i <ad7i at ad7i.net> wrote:
> 
> Greetings --
> 
> In testing my model 15 and 28RO, it looks like both will print 72 characters per line.  But buried deep in my brain, from some long forgotten place, I seem to recall that the max TTY line length was 68 characters.
> 
> So my question for my fellow TTY enthusiasts is, when preparing text for transmission by TTY, what's the recommended line length to use, and why?
> 
> 73, Paul, ad7i
> 
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