Re: Re: [abcusers] Encoding linefeeds

2002-03-07 Thread jr_davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:37 PM 3/6/02, Richard Robinson wrote:On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Jack Campin wrote: I wonder, if at some point in the future, the committe who establishes the abc standard might not consider an alternative to ascii text as a file format. I know on first glance

Re: Re: [abcusers] Encoding linefeeds

2002-03-07 Thread Christian Cepel
Gd Gracious people, I already retracted the suggestion TWICE as an idiotic suggestion. Must I start an orphan's fund as well by way of penance? On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:37 PM 3/6/02, Richard Robinson wrote:On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Jack

Re: Re: Re: [abcusers] Encoding linefeeds

2002-03-07 Thread jr_davis
Gd Gracious people, I already retracted the suggestion TWICE as an idiotic suggestion. Must I start an orphan's fund as well by way of penance? Actually a Rick Davis Starving Children's Fund would be acceptable, or, maybe better, a REtirement Fund FOR Aged abc developers

Re: [abcusers] Encoding linefeeds

2002-03-06 Thread Jack Campin
I wonder, if at some point in the future, the committe who establishes the abc standard might not consider an alternative to ascii text as a file format. I know on first glance there are those who will shudder and scream, but why not. If a standard was created that could not be edited in a

Re: [abcusers] Encoding linefeeds

2002-03-06 Thread Richard Robinson
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Jack Campin wrote: I wonder, if at some point in the future, the committe who establishes the abc standard might not consider an alternative to ascii text as a file format. I know on first glance there are those who will shudder and scream, but why not. If a

[abcusers] Encoding linefeeds

2002-03-05 Thread Christian Cepel
I'm a bit confused, reading through the documentation available online. Our first task in development is of course to parse an abc file. I'm trying to figure out, per the 1.6 standard, WHAT EXACTLY the _approved_ linefeed/newline character, and encoding are for abc. I have here, a quote from

Re: [abcusers] Encoding linefeeds

2002-03-05 Thread Christian Cepel
Thank you. This makes it all very clear. On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, James Allwright wrote: On Tue 05 Mar 2002 at 11:46AM -0600, Christian Cepel wrote: I'm a bit confused, reading through the documentation available online. Our first task in development is of course to parse an abc file. I'm

Re: [abcusers] Encoding linefeeds

2002-03-05 Thread Phil Taylor
Christian Cepel wrote: I'm a bit confused, reading through the documentation available online Our first task in development is of course to parse an abc file I'm trying to figure out, per the 16 standard, WHAT EXACTLY the _approved_ linefeed/newline character, and encoding are for abc This

Re: [abcusers] Encoding linefeeds

2002-03-05 Thread Christian Cepel
Good advice.. One comment below. On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Phil Taylor wrote: If all abc programs adopted the same strategy the problem would simply disappear (but how likely is that?). I don't think it would completely disappear unfortunately due to those of use who like to use external editors.

Re: [abcusers] Encoding linefeeds

2002-03-05 Thread John Chambers
Christian Marcus Cepel wonders: | | I wonder, if at some point in the future, the committe who establishes the | abc standard might not consider an alternative to ascii text as a file | format I know on first glance there are those who will shudder and | scream, but why not If a standard was

Re: [abcusers] Encoding linefeeds - retraction...

2002-03-05 Thread Christian Cepel
Perhaps my 'wonder' was a bit ill considered. I wasn't considering those who want to include abc 'inline' in messages. I was kindof thinking of a perfect world, where, if a non-ascii format were to exist, and a mime type written for it, that all email clients and browsers/servers, ftp