In <8215077812992901.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on
05/29/2015
   at 12:27 AM, Paul Gilmartin
<0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> said:

>Using a device-specific hardware command to separate records in a
>general file makes as little sense as Assembler H's use of machine
>carriage control.

Or as Eunix using LF as a record separator.

>A device-neutral convention might have beem
>Record Separator, ASCII 0x1e.

Please inform Ken Thomson.

>IBM clearly violates a standard.

That's not at all clear. What do POSIX et all formally say about the
use of LF-broken ASCII?  -- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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