Re: [gopher] Line terminators in Gopher transactions
On Tue, 22 May 2012, 05:49:55 EEST, Kim Holviala <kim@holviala.com> wrote:
> Traditionally all TCP protocols have used CRLF as the line ending. Major
> pain in the ass for both clients and servers, but such is life.
The CRLF comes from the original printer meaning of those two ASCII codes: Carriage Return and Line Feed. If you wanted to be at the start of the next line, you needed both.
- Kim
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