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   Wilfred van Velzen to Vince Coen   
   Re: Line termination in msgs issued by m   
   25 Feb 17 21:32:32   
   
   Hi,   
      
   On 2017-02-25 18:45:42, Vince Coen wrote to All:   
     about: "Line termination in msgs issued by mbse":   
      
    VC> It has been reported to me that replies from areafix / filemgr within   
    VC> mbse have only been terminated with a LF as in Linux text format   
    VC> recods etc.   
      
    VC> Problem is I have at least one downlink that uses a Windows based   
    VC> product and is getting a flow of chars on one or more lines that are   
    VC> not formatted with LFCR :   
      
    VC> Is there any way of dealing with this ?   
      
    VC> And still cope with downlinks using Linux.   
      
   It's not a matter of Windows or Linux. It's a matter of fidonet. FTS-0001 has   
   this to say about it:   
      
      
         A 'hard' carriage return, 0DH,  marks the end of a paragraph, and must   
         be preserved.   
      
         So   called  'soft'  carriage  returns,  8DH,  may  mark  a   previous   
         processor's  automatic line wrap, and should be ignored.  Beware  that   
         they may be followed by linefeeds, or may not.   
      
         All  linefeeds, 0AH, should be ignored.  Systems which display message   
         text should wrap long lines to suit their application.   
      
      
      
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
      
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