[Edu-sig] Re: [Tutor] SMTPLIB module - how to add subject ?

Markus Gritsch gritsch@iue.tuwien.ac.at
Sun, 16 Sep 2001 14:50:16 +0200


> >I've pasted the example below. Actually, I really dislike this example.
> >They are using
> >"\r\n"
> >as a character for newlines. Whose idea was that???
> >It should be just
> >"\n"
>
>
> Sounds like a concession to the Windows way of doing
> things.  Isn't that how lines of text get separated
> in that OS?

Of course it is.  UNIX (Linux) uses \n, MacOS uses \r, and Windows uses
\r\n - as you can see, in Windows you get the best of both worlds ;-)

Markus