On 12 December 2017 at 12:11, Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote:
> Then there's ASCII - is that parity off? parity on? parity set? > Then there's lines separated by <CRLF> - or is that <LF>? or is that <LF > with optional trailing NULL>? > And that's just the versions I know of and have met ... > > There's no such thing as "plain text", as anybody using samba or ftp > between different types of system will testify to their cost with > trashed and broken files that screwed up in transfer ... :-) > > Difference being that almost every single editor you could think up transparently reads all of those without you having to think about it.
