Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f1F9vLH12477 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:57:21 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1F9vLd09965 . for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:57:21 +0100 Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1F9vHM13695 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:57:17 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C09735.B01B1680" Received: from mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.56]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA14114 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:57:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1F9vEM13690 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:57:15 +0100 (MET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.8041C7FF@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:57:07 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 488528 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:57:10 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07598 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:57:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA30620 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:57:09 +0100 Received: from musse.tninet.se (musse.tninet.se [195.100.94.12]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with SMTP id f1F9vAx25618 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:57:11 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 12152 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2001 10:57:08 +0100 Received: from delenn.tninet.se (HELO algonet.se) (195.100.94.104) by musse.tninet.se with SMTP; 15 Feb 2001 10:57:08 +0100 Received: from [195.100.226.155] (du155-226.ppp.su-anst.tninet.se [195.100.226.155]) by delenn.tninet.se (BLUETAIL Mail Robustifier 2.2.1) with ESMTP id 334196.231027.982delenn-s0 ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:57:07 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200102142141.PAA55211@dcdrjh.fnal.gov> References: Return-Path: X-Sender: haberg@pop.matematik.su.se Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: Side remarks about TeX input sequence Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:27:37 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Hans Aberg" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3932 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09735.B01B1680 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 15:41 -0600 2001/02/14, Randolph J. Herber wrote: >|> In >|>the past and even nowadays there exist other file types where the >|>end-of-line marker is not part of the file (i.e. a special = character), >|>e.g. files with a fixed-width record (aka line) length. > >|Today, which ones? > > Compaq OpenVMS and IBM OS/MVS are two examples Are these OS's in continued widespread use, or are they dying? -- The = thing is that without those OS line separator convetions, one can decide that = a line separator should be \l, \r, or a \r\l (as in Java), and that would = be platform independent. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09735.B01B1680 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Side remarks about TeX input sequence

At 15:41 -0600 2001/02/14, Randolph J. Herber = wrote:
>|>  In
>|>the past and even nowadays there exist other = file types where the
>|>end-of-line marker is not part of the file = (i.e. a special character),
>|>e.g. files with a fixed-width record (aka = line) length.
>
>|Today, which ones?
>
>       Compaq = OpenVMS and IBM OS/MVS are two examples

Are these OS's in continued widespread use, or are = they dying? -- The thing
is that without those OS line separator convetions, = one can decide that a
line separator should be \l, \r, or a \r\l (as in = Java), and that would be
platform independent.

  Hans Aberg
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