It also implies the receiver of communications should not have to make any effort. If you don't send to me in a manner I can see with no effort then don't bother sending it to me. Not everyone wants to use the same programs or standards as everyone else. There has to be accommodations on both sides in general. This is seasoned with salt and sarcasm so please do not be offended. I want to see a really righteous CR vs LF vs CRLF flamewar. To quote my cousin the Grand Poobah in relation to our guild IMPERIUM in an online game. When the holy file of ASCII was first translated from binary, these secrets and wisdoms were lost. Until the translation, man was lost. Joining the Imperium is a rebirth, much like the rebirth of man. "Whether the End of line in the book of ASCII is a carriage return, or both a carriage return and a Line feed, the text is yet unchanged. But the formatting is destroyed, like a culture without morals, it too shall be destroyed. The better is the single carriage return. Fewer bits are needed to burst transmit.* " *scholars note: it is unknown how many characters were actually terminating the end of a line in the original ASCII text file. The significance of this is that it would determine the operating system used to originally write the holy ASCII. This has been the subject of many holy wars, and both have it own camps supporting one belief or another. These radical fundamental syntaxists have fled to various worlds at the edges of known space vowing to return and change everyone's mind through force and flame. The official line terminator endorsed by the High Cleric of the IMPERIUM actually exists outside of the Hex range of the original ASCII character set >FF (Some have claimed UNICODE, but burned for such heresy). This means that the entire character set is increased, thus leading to questions whether or not the original text has been changed since the ancient check-sums are no longer valid in the new character scheme. This has led to different separatists groups to build lone bases in worship of deuterium. Though looked upon as heretics, their deuterium is of high quality, and is highly sought after through the IMPERUIM. >>end of file...Transmission from the holy terminal of the PooBah In other news... how bout dem Bears? Oh and has anyone see the OT flag anywhere? -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Mike Miller Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 11:08 AM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Equipment for sale? On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Florin Iucha wrote: > if you want to communicate, you need to send something that we can both > see... Hear, hear! Plain text really does work. Of course Micrsoft knows that communication works both ways, so they'll try to produce things for the sender that can't be read unless the receiver also has their software. Running counter to your dictum has made them billions. Mike _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list