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Date:      Wed, 25 Mar 1998 14:44:57 +0100
From:      Jos Backus <J.G.E.Backus@urc.tue.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: btw - ^M
Message-ID:  <19980325144457.D12921@asterix.urc.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <v04003a07b13eb7c5c9e4@[208.140.182.45]>; from Cory Kempf on Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 08:33:23AM -0500
References:  <199803242158.LAA12307@rocksalt.mui.net>; <199803242158.LAA12307@rocksalt.mui.net> <19980325112205.51229@iii.co.uk> <v04003a07b13eb7c5c9e4@[208.140.182.45]>

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On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 08:33:23AM -0500, Cory Kempf wrote:
> This will work for Macintosh files, but Microsoft, for reasons that escape me,
> seems to require both a \r and a \n.

See http://www.pobox.com/~djb/proto/design.html for yet another reason why
this is a Bad Thing.

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                              _/  _/   _/         having to say you're sorry."
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