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 Message 1528 
 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

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