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Article #124598Re: Why do we use '-- ' as a .sig separator ?
From: pet... Dr. Peter Kittel
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 00:00
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In article <abuse-ya02408000...@news.mindspring.com> ab...@orion-com.com (Joe Thompson) writes: > >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. But all this does stem from the UNIX world, right? And in UNIX, you don't use CR (0D) for newline, but LF (0A). So this collides a bit with your theory. -- Best Regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // http://www.pios.de of PIOS Private Site in Frankfurt, Germany \X/ office: peterk @ pios.de
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From: pet...@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel) Subject: Re: Why do we use '-- ' as a .sig separator ? Date: 1998/02/04 Message-ID: <peterk.1cp7@combo.ganesha.com> X-Deja-AN: 322189597 References: <B0F2C431966822BA4C@hearsay.demon.co.uk> <hnsngr-ya023180002601981909440001@news.sirius.com> <6ajn4i$sn7@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <34ceca7b.0@news.wizvax.net> <6anoq6$8a3$1@news3.tufts.edu> <abuse-ya02408000R3001982219350001@news.mindspring.com> Reply-To: peterk @ combo.ganesha.com Organization: Private Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit