On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:25:53 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ftware.com> wrote:
>Jim, > >it looks like you have a Mac user to deal with....aren't they a pain? :- ) > >Windows record termination: x'0d0a' >Unix record termination: x'0a' >Mac record termination: x'0d' > And, of course, mainframes use"out of band" record termination. It's more complicated than that. Mac OS X is built on BSD Unix. Record te rminator is LF. But many existing Mac programs still use CR. Occasionally you will have the Unix F TP transferring an old Mac OS file. This causes problems! The Internet has a standard record separator of CRLF. In theory, that sho uld avoid all these incompatibilities. However, if you use Binary FTP transfer, then all bets are off. And some Unix programs use LF instead of CRLF, on the assumption that everything in the Internet is Unix. It sure would have been nice if the ASCII "Standard" had specified what t o do with the darn control characters. Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com
