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From: toriw@online.no (Tor Iver Wilhelmsen)
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Subject: Re: Word Process Anywhere Beta Testers Needed
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:28:41 GMT
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On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:18:07 -0500, rnewman@thecia.net (Ron Newman)
uttered:

>If you're writing in a cross-platform language like Java, shouldn't
>you not have to worry about this?   The language should provide an
>appropriate implementation for each platform which hides this 
>difference entirely.

A problem arises when your _client_ writes to a _server_, and the two
use different linebreak encodings. For instance, if an "editor applet"
running on a Mac writes a text file to a Unix-based server, and you
don't take it into account, a Unix user opening that file will not get
broken lines, but a broken file. :-)

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Tor Iver Wilhelmsen       toriw@online.no