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On 12 December 2017 at 12:11, Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Then there's ASCII - is that parity off? parity on? parity set? |
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> Then there's lines separated by <CRLF> - or is that <LF>? or is that <LF |
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> with optional trailing NULL>? |
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> And that's just the versions I know of and have met ... |
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> There's no such thing as "plain text", as anybody using samba or ftp |
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> between different types of system will testify to their cost with |
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> trashed and broken files that screwed up in transfer ... :-) |
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> Difference being that almost every single editor you could think up |
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transparently reads all of those without you having to think about it. |
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