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Re: XML and mainframes, yet again (was RE: So mecom

• To: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Subject: Re: XML and mainframes, yet again (was RE: So mecomments on the 1.1 draft)
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 05:58:16 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: Mike.Champion@S..., xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200112171020.KAA18968@p...> from David Carlisle at"Dec 17, 2001 10:20:26 am"

David Carlisle scripsit:

> [I]f you ftp a file in text mode from one platform to another
> do ebcdic line ends end up on your ascii/latin1/unicode/windows-xxx
> platform as #85 or as some conbination of #10 and #13 (this is a real
> question I no longer have access to an ebcdic based machine to test this
> myself)

The latter.  But FTP-ing files is not the only way of sharing them;
mainframes can implement NFS, for example, and then there can be
no question of such automatic conversion.

-- 
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@c...
Please leave your values        |       Check your assumptions.  In fact,
   at the front desk.           |          check your assumptions at the door.
     --sign in Paris hotel      |            --Miles Vorkosigan

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