RE: BIRD 53 clarification

Thanks for the clarification.

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* Geoffrey Ellis *
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>I agree that it would be nice for an IBIS parser to recognize line
>termination sequences from either Unix or DOS. The syntax for BIRD 53
>is not completely accurate. The character "\n" is not ASCII. It is an
>escape sequence used in programming languages. "\n" is just as valid in
>DOS as in Unix. Just ask my C compiler or perl interpreter. Unix line
>termination is ^J (0x0A) and DOS line termination is ^M^J (0x0D 0x0A).
>The effect is the same, but the syntax is different.
>
>Regards,
>Weston Beal
Received on Mon Aug 10 11:23:25 1998