In <[email protected]>, on
05/29/2015
at 12:27 AM, Paul Gilmartin
<[email protected]> 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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