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Re: binary files ,kudos,RE:new to this

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <eu.lue at gmx.de> Jan 28, 2003
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Hi Derek, you wrote:

[...]

> Text files are internally
> organized into lines of text. A line is defined as all the characters up to
> and including the end-of-line marker. In Microsoft world the end-of-line is
> a two-byte sequence of CARRIAGE-RETURN and NEWLINE (#0D0A) but in the unix
> world the EOL is just a single NEWLINE (#0A) byte.

... and in the Mac world the EOL is just a single CARRIAGE-RETURN (#0D) byte.
To complete the confusion, in e-mails, the EOL is a two-byte sequence of
CARRIAGE-RETURN and NEWLINE (#0D0A) -- at least it should be after RFC 2822 --,
regardless of the 'world' in which the e-mail client 'lives'.

[...]

> Have a look
> at http://www.wotsit.org for a list of standard binary file formats.

Very interesting. Thank you!

Best regards,
   Juergen

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