Subj : Re: Simple request...
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Finnigann
Date : Mon May 30 2005 09:37 pm

-=> With interpidation and the MAGIC of QWK Mail Angus Mcleod wrote to Deuce
=-

 AM>   Re: Simple request...
 AM>   By: Deuce to Time Warrior on Mon May 30 2005 11:57:00

 >  >  > Just for fun, ask what a "Hard CR" is and watch the flamefest begin.
 >  >
 >  > Gee i dunno.... carriage(sp?) return (aka the hitting of the ENTER key)..
 >  >
 >  > Why would there be a flame fest provided by that answer? lol Or would it
 >  > someone ASKING the question that starts it? lol
 >
 > Well, I'm willing to bet that it's a CRLF since that's what internet message
 > use as a line delimiter.  Macs are the only think I know of that use a CR (A
 > maybe VAX... can't remember) for their text files.  But as to how such a thi
 > differs from a "soft" CR or if (since LF is the last char in the sequenc) it
 > should be a "Hard LF" or some such.  Just more of the qualifying things that
 > don't need it stuff.

 AM> You know, this might make sense if he'd said a "hard newline" or
 AM> a "hard end-of-line" or something.  But a CR is a CR is a
 AM> Carriage Return is an 0x0d and there is nothing hard or soft
 AM> about it.
             
OK time to display my ignorance:

Ah-hem... What character ends the line of text on a, oh let's say a web
page? I mean the line length changes with the size of the web browser's
window. So it's not a HARD carriage return, is it?

Something other than asc(13) is at work here... ain't it?



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