On Jan 22, 2013, at 11:45 PM, Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 1/22/13 7:16 PM, Dean Willis wrote:
>> Microsoft-OS text editors. Seriously. People wanted to be able to
>> write correct SIP messages using text editors, and there were more
>> Microsoft users than Linux users on the list.
>
> Oh, c'mon. MS products and MacOS at the time used CRLF for newlines
> generally, not just in Word. The fact that it was specified that way
> in HTTP, SMTP, FTP, and others matters a bit, as well.
Yup, and Unix users have the ability to choose line endings:
Emacs -
M-x set-buffer-file-coding-system RET undecided-dos
VI -
: Set fileformat = dos : W
If you are using anything else, a: don't or b:
tr -d '\r' < input.file > output.file
or
perl -pi -e 's/\r\n/\n/g' input.file
or
sed 's/$'"/`echo \\\r`/" input.txt > output.txt
or….
W
>
> Melinda
>
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