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Re: Current Status of Discussion on RE/RS Handling

From: Charles F. Goldfarb <Charles@SGMLsource.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 03:20:02 GMT
To: gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol)
Cc: jjc@jclark.com, lee@sq.com, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <325069cf.9124514@mail.alink.net>
On Mon, 30 Sep 1996 09:08:39 -0400, gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol) wrote:
>
>Then who is to define *how* an entity manager is to recognise these
>"lines"?

It varies by the file system (or more generally, storage manager). IBM
mainframes use a length field, DOS uses CR/LF, and so on. There is a good
description of this in the FSI spec.


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