On 11/11/2011 2:59 PM, Michael Hobart wrote:
> Wayne
>
> It has been a while since I have used Eudora, but look for a setting in
> Eudora for how it treats the end of the line. One of the bizarre results of
> multiple competing computer operating systems is that there is no STANDARD
> definition of the end of a line in text or email. It may be any combination
> of<CR> = carriage return, and<LF> = line feed, characters.
>
> Competition is often good, but not necessarily when it leads to
> non-standardization of essential features :-)
My late brother was a computer hardware designer, last as an independent
designer of laptops. One of his favorite lines
was a commentary about the state of standards even decades ago.
"I'm firmly in favor of standards, everyone should have some."
Moose
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