On Jun 6, 2005, at 9:37, Alain Matthes wrote:

I would like to use TM starting from tin (Unix Newsreader) but with the following parameters: a number of columns 72 and encoding Iso Latin-1. Is it possible to call TM with specific options?

Sorry, it is not.

If TM is not already running, you could write to its defaults. But that's not really a solution.