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   Andrew Leary to Wilfred van Velzen   
   Line termination in msgs issued by mbse   
   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   
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