On 20 May 97 at 18:13, clarkcb@corp.sykes.com wrote:
> As for usage standards, such as CRLF vs. CR vs. LF vs. LS vs. PS, etc., we
> have two options:
> 1. agree on definitive standards now, and support nothing but, or
> 2. support everything
> Now, I have done enough programming to know that supporting more means more
> headaches, but I still feel that the second option is the better one at this
> time. Feedback?
Option 2 doesn't work, precisely because there are incompatible uses
of several of the characters. For example, I expect text like
a<LF>four<LF>line<LF>poem
to display as
a
four
line
poem
but a UNIX person probably expects to see
a
four
line
poem
Tony Harminc
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