Re: Character Data

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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 94 14:45:14 EDT
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From: Corprew Reed <corp@cshl.org>
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Subject: Re: Character Data
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@ What if a line is terminated by CRLF in PRE content? Does
@ that count as 1 linebreak or 2?
@ 
@ Corprew: could you run some tests?

I've got it clocked at 1 linebreak on Lynx, WinMosaic, and XMosaic,
and 2 linebreaks on MacWeb and MacMosaic.  WinWeb and DosLynx not
tested due to unavailability.  Tk/WWW crashed my X display, and ST/Web
(my level 0 client in ST/80, as if anyone cared) got 1. 

It also looks like the \r is effectively ignored on the ones that got
1 linebreak and treated the same as \n on the ones that got 2 when it
occurs by itself.

I used the output of this program to test it.  

main()
{
        printf("<pre>\n");
        printf("hello\n");
        printf("hello\r");
        printf("hello\n\r");
        printf("hello\r\n");
        printf("hello\n");
        printf("hello           \rhello          \nhello          \r\nhello");
        printf("</pre>");
        printf("test ends");
}

--Corp


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