From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: MIME standards (Was: Re: Fastest bitblt?)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 22:20:33 +0000
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Hello.

"Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" wrote:
> 
> Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> > >> It's on Usenet; DOS line endings are the standard on Usenet.
> > >But maybe not on the mailing list ;-)
> > What is the standard for line endings in Internet mail?
> 
> I believe the standard calls for "\r\n" as the line-delimiter.  But some
> programs don't obey that standard anyways.

See RFC 822 at e.g. http://www.rfc-editor.org/ . The standard line
delimiter is CRLF = CR LF = \r\l = char 13, char 10. IIRC \n = \r\l on
DOS. So, the DOS standard is used for mails too.

Unix uses just \l to delimit lines, which is why you see lots of ^M
characters if you view a DOS-format text file on Unix with a DOS-unaware
viewer.

HTH, bye,

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Richard Dawe
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