Date   : Thu, 02 Aug 1984 08:06:00 MDT (Thu)
From   : Richard Conn <RCONN@Simtel20.ARPA>
Subject: [dual!islenet!richard: ZCPR3 Phase 2 ...]

This is the message from Richard I responded to re DPROG. -- Rick


Date: Thursday, 2 August 1984  06:40-MDT
From: dual!islenet!richard at Berkeley
To:   RCONN at Simtel20.ARPA
Re:   ZCPR3 Phase 2 ...

It all sounds very interesting.  Can't wait to see it.

One question; you appear to be using a lot of C conventions, which is
very nice, why this funky little incompatibility?


>           \l      Line Feed Char (LF)
>           \n      New Line char (CRLF pair)
>           \r      Carriage Return char (CR)

Was it really necessary to have <crlf> available as a single unit?
If so, why not create a new notation for it such as "\$" ?  The way
you have it, you have broken two of the most important C character
notation conventions.

Now if you were to provide the facility to have newlines (0xa) be converted
to crlf's on output that would be useful.

Keep up the good work.


Richard Foulk
Honolulu, Hawaii