From: Xavier Noria Date: 2007-08-14T01:29:00+09:00 Subject: Re: ENTER character 2007/8/13, Xavier Noria : > A robust line-oriented program tries to understand every convention. > For instance a CGI processing a text area. That normally requires > newline normalization by hand. Some programming languages offer I/O > options to understand everything on reading. For instance the :crlf > Perl I/O layer, Let me add that the :crlf layer is a partial solution for this , it lets you understand text as long as it comes with CRLFs or the runtime convention. -- fxn