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Ambiguity in spec regarding line endings

Sean Conner sean at conman.org

Thu Jun 4 22:53:14 BST 2020

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It was thus said that the Great prisonpotato at tilde.team once stated:

I disagree with this idea, as it adds a signifigant burden to both
server implementations and client implementations running on unix
systems.

And I disagree with this disagreement. Requiring only LF produces anundue hardship on Windows systems which use both CR and LF. And Windows is*still* the most popular operating system out there.

-spc (I can't believe I'm defending Windows here ... )