Re: line terminator

["Matthew Wall" <wall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Mon, May 26, 1997 10:11 AM -0600 "Steve Hole" <steve@xxxxxxx> wrote: 

> 
> On Tue, 20 May 1997 23:15:00 -0400 (EDT)  Tim Showalter 
> <tjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> You have your choice of two reasonable choices:
>> 
>> LF|CRLF|CR: This works with any OS that purports to save files in ASCII
>> text.
>> 
>> CRLF: This is what a standard does normally.
> 
> I would make the text canonical and always use CRLF.   Most 
> mail applications already have canonical->local line translators in them 
> to support saving RFC822 text to local files.   In the worst case, a Mac 
> or UNIX editor will just show the extra line end character.   The other 
> way around, you end up with lines all running together.  

I agree with Steve.

- mw

  
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