- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 08:50:37 -0400
- To: Charles@SGMLsource.com
- CC: jjc@jclark.com, lee@sq.com, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
>> >>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. Most operating systems I have seen deal with bytes or blocks, and any other structure is imposed through system libraries, which are linked into programs which generally run in user-space.
Received on Tuesday, 1 October 1996 08:53:15 UTC