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From: pv@eng.sun.COM (Peter Vanderbilt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Re: CRLF
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Date: 25 Jan 91 20:14:53 GMT
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>     > But as far as the to-be-defined external body parts, I'd recommend
>     >allowing lines to be delimited by either LF or CRLF.
>
>     Better allow bare CRs, too; that's what Macintoshes use.  And
>     LF<NUL>CRs and [...]

>  Arguments like this one is the reason that CRLF is the Right Thing.

Since recommending that lines be terminated by either LF or CRLF, I've
come 180 degrees and now agree that CRLF is the right thing for all
text body parts.

Owen's proposal

>  I'd rather see each line encoded as a seperate ASN.1 string, with no
>  delimiters in ie. implicit delimiter at the end of each string. [...]

is OK also but you might need to add elements that correspond to the
other control characters (like form-feed).

Pete