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dgaudet-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org (Dean Gaudet)  wrote on 19.06.99 in <Pine.LNX.3.96dg4.990619200939.13581A-100000@twinlark.arctic.org>:

> usual unix on-disk representation... Not that this should stop someone
> from designing a kick butt mail system which uses CRLF on disk
> representations... after all if you're doing IMAP and POP why do you care
> if unix tools can read the files or not?

Besides, whoever invented the myth that crlf line endings are a problem
for unix tools?

> Yeah, now imagine the joy of the IMAP server with on-disk LF files... the
> IMAP protocol allows random-access to messages... try skipping ahead N
> bytes in the CRLF representation when you've only got the LF
> representation.
>
> And you thought HTTP was dumb :)

Incidentally, HTTP has the exact same problem. Just because much software
ignores the crlf requirement doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, you know.

*All* "real" Internet protocols use crlf line endings exclusively.

As for crlf on-disk in unix, well, I hear the big news transit servers,
for example, do it that way.

Personally, I'd even keep dot escapes on-disk.

MfG Kai

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