Hello All,

Wikipedia says: In typesetting, widows and orphans are lines at the beginning or end of a paragraph which are left dangling at the top or bottom of a page or column, separated from the rest of the paragraph.

In Fidonet, we have flow files referring to echomail and ticket files (.TIC) referring to fileecho files. If some echomail file has lost the flow file referring to it, or a fileecho file has lost the .TIC referring to it, may I call it a widow file (or maybe an orphan one)?

Michael

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Hi Michael -- on Jul 03 2020 at 09:38, you wrote:

In Fidonet, we have flow files referring to echomail and ticket
files (.TIC) referring to fileecho files. If some echomail file has
lost the flow file referring to it, or a fileecho file has lost the
.TIC referring to it, may I call it a widow file (or maybe an orphan
one)?

I've never heard them called that, but I don't see why not. I'd
personally call those files "orphans" rather than widows, but I'm not
sure why!



Cheers... Dallas

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