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Quoting Dan Mabbutt <Seigfried@m...>: > Just a note from the peanut gallery. (BTW ... this pie fight looks > great > from up here!) > > I tried it out ... your text file looks great to me. I checked it in a > hex > list program and it does have CRLF line endings. Not that this is of > world > shaking importance, but I wonder if someone can explain to me why Ed > thinks > this file will look terrible and why it doesn't on my system. I guess some mail software somewhere automatically converted it to what it's own conventions were? > > Dan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ed Chidester [mailto:echid@t...] > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:44 AM > To: xml-dev@l...; elharo@m... > Subject: Re: XML Blueberry > > > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > > > ... > > > > The concern with respect to IBM is that ... [they are] > > ... somehow unable to handle documents where lines end with > > carriage returns and line feeds, as they do on every non-IBM system > on > > the planet. > > > > ... > > You might try checking your facts. True, many non-IBM systems handle a > carriage return followed by a line feed (CRLF) as an end of line. In > particular, the Microsoft operating systems. But, you might be > surprised > to hear that a small company called Sun Microsystems in their Solaris > operating system only uses a line feed character. In a similar manner > I've heard that Apple only uses a carriage return character to end > lines. > > Try opening a file that's been created on Solaris using Notepad > (I've attached the above paragraph for your viewing pleasure)... > Looks pretty ugly doesn't it? > > > In short, I think you're being overly hard on IBM and please realize > that > Microsoft hasn't taken over the world just yet. > > > Ed. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word > "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l... > -- Alaric B. Snell http://www.alaric-snell.com/ http://RFC.net/ http://www.warhead.org.uk/ Any sufficiently advanced technology can be emulated in software
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