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Re: Canonical Substitution
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: Canonical Substitution |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:00:33 -0500 (EST) |
Duncan Sommerville writes:
>
> Is it the client or the servers job to perform CRLF <--> LF
> substitution when transfering text files between Windows and Unix
> platforms?
The client/server protocol specifies that files are to be transferred in
a canonical format, so it is the client's job to translate between that
format and the host-specific file format. However, that job is
delegated to the C run-time library in the standard implementation.
-Larry Jones
Shut up and go get me some antiseptic. -- Calvin