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Re: [opensuse] amavisd warning failure?
  • From: Philipp Thomas <philipp.thomas@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:23:33 +0100
  • Message-id: <b6nhr39tcc5vi1ts5d8t0vgrvphj0s2nk1@xxxxxxx>
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:29:32 +0100 (CET), Carlos E. R. wrote:

I could say that *nix sucks because it does not use the standard CR-LF end of
line sequence.

No, DOS sucks in way to many ways and one of them is that stupid CR-LF
combo, which dates back to ancient CPM if I remember right. That is the
reason, why text files have to be treated differently from binary files
(in C the "b" open mode for file streams) because of the CR-LF handling.

Having a text EOF char is quite useful, just different of what you are used
to.

For transmitting data perhaps (that's where control characters come
from), but not in data processing.

Philipp
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