Ambiguity in spec regarding line endings

defdefred defdefred at protonmail.com
Fri Jun 5 09:00:04 BST 2020


Isn't it only a text editor issue?

Wordpad is working for unix like text file...


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On Friday 5 June 2020 00:21, Matthew Graybosch <hello at matthewgraybosch.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 17:53:14 -0400
> Sean Conner sean at conman.org wrote:
>
> > And I disagree with this disagreement. Requiring only LF produces
> > an undue hardship on Windows systems which use both CR and LF. And
> > Windows is still the most popular operating system out there.
>
> What if somebody decides to write a Gemini client for FreeDOS? IIRC,
> that OS still uses CR and LF for line endings, just like MS-DOS did.
> Wouldn't a LF-only requirement hamper such an effort?
>
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