Re: plain text has its points

A convention I've developed is to use a .asc extension standing for "ASCII
document" for files with carriage return/line feed delimiters at the end of
paragraphs but not lines.  I use a .txt extension to denote a text file with
such delimiters at the end of each line.  This approach is consistent with
the common convention of identifying a file format by its extension.

Regards,
Jamal

On 1998-12-10 crism@oreilly.com said:
   N[Bruce Bailey]
   N> If someone wants a particular html document in ascii, I would
   N>argue  that the burden falls to him to convert it himself.
   NIt's not hard: lynx -dump on any UNIX or DOS box with Lynx
   Ninstalled; there are services on the 'net that will do this.  There
   Neven used to be e-mail Web proxies; are any of them still around?
   N> Another work around is to use line feeds (^L) as soft returns and
   N> carriage returns (^M) as the end of paragraph marks, but this is
   N>not  very common.
   NI should say not: ^L is a page break, not a line feed.  That would
   Nbe a pretty odd-looking document.  I assume you meant ^J, but the
   Nproblem with that proposal is that both ^J and ^M are in use: UNIX
   Nuses line feeds (^J) at the end of every line; Macintosh uses
   Ncarriage returns (^M), and DOS/Windows uses CRLF (^M^J).  Adopting
   Nany other use for these extremely characters would cause a fair bit
   Nof chaos.
   N-Chris
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