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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN