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|    Andrew Leary to Wilfred van Velzen    |
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|    25 Feb 17 16:01:48    |
      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              --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20161221        * Origin: Phoenix BBS * phoenix.bnbbbs.net (1:320/219)    |
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