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Ambiguity in spec regarding line endings

defdefred defdefred at protonmail.com

Fri Jun 5 09:00:04 BST 2020

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Isn't it only a text editor issue?

Wordpad is working for unix like text file...

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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐On Friday 5 June 2020 00:21, Matthew Graybosch <hello at matthewgraybosch.com> wrote:

On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 17:53:14 -0400
Sean Conner sean at conman.org wrote:
And I disagree with this disagreement. Requiring only LF produces
an undue hardship on Windows systems which use both CR and LF. And
Windows is still the most popular operating system out there.
What if somebody decides to write a Gemini client for FreeDOS? IIRC,
that OS still uses CR and LF for line endings, just like MS-DOS did.
Wouldn't a LF-only requirement hamper such an effort?
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