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Re: RS/RE considered confusing?

From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 14:54:49 GMT
Message-Id: <199609161454.OAA12563@wiley.EBT.COM>
To: ricko@allette.com.au
CC: dlapeyre@mulberrytech.com, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
>Maybe someone has suggested this already, but a possible approach is to
>treat the whole entity as one record, i.e. to disconnect the record
>concept from the line concept. (One could use End Of Transmission
>character to signify RE, I guess: presumably this would be stripped out by
>the network session handler and reinserted by the entity handler.)

Precisely what Dave Durand and I thought.
Received on Monday, 16 September 1996 10:56:31 EDT

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