Re: Lines count in USEFOR

"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:37:23 GMT

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In <[email protected]> Harald Alvestrand <[email protected]> writes:

>My memory says that we had an extensive discussion before we landed on 
>the idea that the line count == the number of CRLFs in the Body.

>1) It's unambiguously correct for bodies that end with CRLF and with no 
>bare CRLF
>2) It's clear how to count for bodies that contain bare CR or bare LF
>3) It's compatible with at least some existing code for bodies that 
>don't end in CRLF

>I suggest we leave this one alone.

Agreed. I have no huge urge to change it. The only possible change wouold
be to decree that, contrary to RFC 5322, the final line of the <body> MUST
be terminated with a CRLF. That indeed seems to be the universal current
practice.

Interestingly, the UNIX wc command returns does not regard a final
unterminated line as countable (and Cnews at least uses wc).

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