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to: WILFRED VAN VELZEN
from: ANDREW LEARY
date: 2017-02-25 16:06:00
subject: Line termination in msgs

Hello Wilfred!

25 Feb 17 21:32, you wrote to Vince Coen:

 WV> It's not a matter of Windows or Linux. It's a matter of fidonet.
 WV> FTS-0001 has this to say about it:


 WV>       A 'hard' carriage return, 0DH,  marks the end of a paragraph,
 WV> and must
 WV>       be preserved.

 WV>       So   called  'soft'  carriage  returns,  8DH,  may  mark  a
 WV> previous
 WV>       processor's  automatic line wrap, and should be ignored.  Beware
 WV> that
 WV>       they may be followed by linefeeds, or may not.

 WV>       All  linefeeds, 0AH, should be ignored.  Systems which display
 WV> message
 WV>       text should wrap long lines to suit their application.

v1.0.6.13 and later have been fixed to terminate the lines of the 
AreaMgr/FileMgr replies and notify messages with CRs instead of LFs.

Andrew

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