Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <00bd01c465a8$815be190$0200000a@agamemnon> From: "Jon A. Lambert" To: References: <010701c464f4$398e2030$4e6510ac AT ds DOT tao DOT co DOT uk> <013301c464fe$e2e425d0$4e6510ac AT ds DOT tao DOT co DOT uk> <00aa01c4659f$662717e0$4e6510ac AT ds DOT tao DOT co DOT uk> Subject: Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?") Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 07:33:04 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes "William Blunn" wrote: > There is a phrase that goes: > > "Be permissive in what you accept, and strict in what you send" > > Now this is just a phrase, and by itself does not have significance. Yeah it appears in RFC1885 as "Be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you receive.", just a few paragraphs above where it recommends: "Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line with a carriage return." -- J. Lambert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/