> than a DOS hangover. In a similar vein, I think that if most code
literally
> implemented many specifications of CR/LF handling, a lot fewer
applications
> would (inter-)operate.
got to admit, it makes sense to me for software to (a) see everything not a
useable character as whitespace, and (b) smoothly deal with the more common
EOL variants
not a big deal, just makes good s/w engineering sense...
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Jeff Sonstein, M.A.
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