Hi Raif, On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 15:02 +1100, Raif S. Naffah wrote: > while working on the jarsigner tool, i am seeing the Manifest file being > generated by both JDKs 1.4 and 1.5, is using a 0x0D0A as its line > endings, even when the jar file containing this manifest was generated > on a linux platform. this is not the case with our implementation of > the JarOutputStream which uses the platform-specific line endings.
This kind of makes sense. If you read the original specification it looks like a Manifest file was meant to be "robust" even when transferred through email. So a lot of conventions are taken from RFC822. Since according to RFC822 (header) lines should end with CRLF it isn't so strange to adopt this convention for Manifest files. See http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/signedobj/jarfile/jar.htm (unfortunately down at the moment) Cheers, Mark
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