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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: IEEE 1003.2 (was Re: fixing rm * (was: Worm/Passwords))
Message-ID: <5203@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 88 17:57:57 GMT
References: <1812@ndsuvax.UUCP> <717@quintus.UUCP> <6518@csli.STANFORD.EDU> <6550@csli.STANFORD.EDU> <145@minya.UUCP> <9137@smoke.BRL.MIL> <33251@think.UUCP> <9154@smoke.BRL.MIL> <396@aber-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Distribution: eunet,world
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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No archive format that allows any of the following can be considered
portable:

    lines consisting of a single dot
    lines beginning with the word "From"
    lines ending with blanks
    lines containing embedded tab characters
    lines containing control characters
    lines containing graphic characters (e.g. { } \ |)
       for which there is no standard EBCDIC convention
    lines that exceed 80 characters

There is no existing portable text archive format.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi