Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Message-Id: <v04010d04b134f80499a2@resnick2.qualcomm.com>
In-Reply-To: <350F3BF7.F58@mpa15ab.mv.unisys.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:07:47 -0600
To: Bill McQuillan <mcquillan@mpa15ab.mv.unisys.com>
From: Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: Small Clarification to msg-fmt-04
Cc: drums@cs.utk.edu

On 3/17/98 at 9:13 PM -0600, Bill McQuillan wrote:

>In section 2.1:
>
>>                                              Messages are divided into lines
>> of characters. A line is a series of characters which is delimited with the
>                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                                                        ends
>
>> two characters carriage-return and line-feed;

Actually, throughout I think I was pretty careful to make sure that lines
did *not* include the CRLF but were only delimited by them. It's nice to be
able to say things like "empty line", or "line consisting of only spaces",
etc. And although I don't discuss it in this document, with this we avoid
confusions with people who change their representations of lines to either
end with CR alone, LF alone, or store them in record format where there are
no extra characters.

All in all, I think the current text is more consistent.

pr
--
Pete Resnick <mailto:presnick@qualcomm.com>
QUALCOMM Incorporated
Work: (217)337-6377 or (619)651-4478 / Fax: (217)337-1980