ietf-nntp Standardization of LIST OVERVIEW.FMT

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Fri Apr 4 11:15:41 PST 2003


Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

> Hm.  Does NNTP itself have any trouble with LF without CR or CR without
> LF, or is that inherited from the underlying article format?  I know INN
> accepts and handles those messages reasonably well (and there are quite a
> few of them out there floating around).

Windows software might convert LF to CRLF: C's stdio library, in text
mode, strips the CR before returning data to the application, and writes
a CR before each LF in text mode.

-- 
Matthias Andree



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