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Article #124597Re: Why do we use '-- ' as a .sig separator ?
From: ab... Joe Thompson
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 00:00
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In article <6anoq6$8a3$1...@news3.tufts.edu>, kis...@allegro.cs.tufts.edu
(Kirk Is) wrote:
> Is the "official" convention that it's dash-dash-space, not
> just dash-dash?
Actually convention is dash, dash, space, newline, or in ASCII:
45 45 32 13 (decimal)
2D 2D 20 0D (hex)
So anytime you see 2D2D200D followed by text followed by an EOF, you can
treat everything in between as a sig (if it's an RFC 822 message,
presumably).
It may (or may not) be worth noting that 2, D and 0 are the only characters
needed to express the sig header in hex. Are they particularly significant
for some reason? -- Joe
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