Re: Why do we use '-- ' as a .sig separator ?

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From: Louis RAPHAEL
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 00:00

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Dr. Peter Kittel <pet...@combo.ganesha.com> wrote:

: 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.

Yes, but for news/mail transport, the standard still seems to be CRLF.
At least, that's what I remember from when I coded a small app that
had to interface with my local friendly $NNTPSERVER - it required \n\r
termination of lines. Or maybe I'm daydreaming...

Louis

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From: Louis RAPHAEL <rap...@cs.mcgill.ca>
Subject: Re: Why do we use '-- ' as a .sig separator ?
Date: 1998/02/05
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