- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 08:59:53 -0400
- To: jjc@jclark.com
- CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
>I explained in an earlier message ><URL:http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-sgml-wg/msg00243.html> >(mainly paragraph 2) why I believe that view to be mistaken. Right, and I replied to that message earlier. It seems to me that this is a matter of subjective opinion. It is a fact that many, and perhaps even most, modern operating systems do not even have the concept of line seperators, except as applied to certain devices. TTY drivers are what implements the line-oriented display features of UNIX: the file systems have no concept of this. MSDOS, and windows follow the same path. As David has also pointed out, even on the Mac, there is no such thing as "line" or "record". The concept of "line" is even more poorly defined than "record", and in most cases is an application convention.
Received on Monday, 30 September 1996 09:01:45 UTC