| Internet Line Terminators |
The Internet line terminator is ``\015\012''. Under ASCII variants of Unix, that could usually be written as ``\r\n'', but under other systems, ``\r\n'' might at times be ``\015\015\012'', ``\012\012\015'', or something completely different. The standards specify writing ``\015\012'' to be conformant (be strict in what you provide), but they also recommend accepting a lone ``\012'' on input (but be lenient in what you require). We haven't always been very good about that in the code in this manpage, but unless you're on a Mac, you'll probably be ok.
| Internet Line Terminators |