From: "Björn Persson" <bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu>
Subject: Re: Latin_1 and portability
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:54:08 GMT
Date: 2003-12-13T14:54:08+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031213155408.356b7ec3.bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.111.1071322524.31149.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:35:17 -0000
"amado.alves" <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> wrote:
> I don't think I have ever met one implementation of TCP/IP or magnetic
> media types (that's ISO-9660 right?) that actually convert.
ISO 9660 is for optical media - CDs and DVDs. Not that it matters.
TCP is on a far too low level to convert line breaks, and IP is even lower.
FTP tries to do this, fails, and causes endless problems with corruption of
non-text files. Even FTP is on a too low level.
> Of course AdaOS will do the right thing :-)
Now I'm curious. What is the right thing to do?
Björn Persson
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2003-12-13 13:35 Latin_1 and portability amado.alves
2003-12-13 14:54 ` Björn Persson [this message]
2003-12-13 22:17 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-12-14 1:55 ` Björn Persson
2003-12-13 22:21 ` Larry Kilgallen
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2003-12-13 15:24 amado.alves
2003-12-14 2:46 ` Björn Persson
2003-12-14 5:04 ` Jeff C,
2003-12-14 6:12 ` Nick Roberts
2003-12-13 2:27 amado.alves
2003-12-13 13:09 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-12-10 13:16 amado.alves
2003-12-10 12:15 Xavier Serrand
2003-12-10 13:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-12-10 22:00 ` Xavier Serrand
2003-12-10 18:33 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-12-10 21:34 ` Pascal Obry
2003-12-10 21:52 ` Ludovic Brenta
2003-12-11 3:40 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-12-12 23:41 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-12-13 14:48 ` Robert I. Eachus
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