29 Dec
2007
29 Dec
'07
10:57 a.m.
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 tiggerlasv at aim.com wrote:
It looks like the carriage returns were stripped out
somehow.
One of the recurring issues of ASCII is:
"What is the ASCII code for newline?"
Is a new line CR (carriage return)? LF (linefeed)? CR LF? LF CR?
Is '\n' 0Dh? 0Ah? 0Dh 0Ah? 0Ah 0Dh?
Before you answer, contemplate:
"Why have SO MANY companies got that wrong?"
("wrong" actually means any choice other than yours, and each company
thought that there were good reasons for doing it their way.)
For example,
TRS80 was 0Dh; IBM PC was 0Dh 0Ah
made for lots of extra fun when interchanging printers, and resulted in
many printers having "auto linefeed".
What does your system do when it receives a message that is "wrong"?
Fergeddabout how Henk's message quotes look on the screen.
In the raw message, BEFORE processing by the mail program, do those parts
of his messages have 0Dh characters? Do they have 0Ah characters?
What OS is Henk using? What mail program? What ISP?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com