At 12:49 PM 5/9/00 -0400, Ann Harrison wrote:

>>
>>As a result of this I modified my engine to recognize the BLR to text
>>conversion and stuff in the CRLF pairs so that things would look nice and
>>tidy as they should.
>
>Another way to do that would have been to write a simple filter that
>sits between text and a new type called "crlf", for example. The filter
>would read segments and add line terminators if it didn't find them.
>

Ann is absolutely correct in theory. If, however, the one and
only place in the entire world that uses segment boundaries
as line terminators is the code that prints blr, just arbitrarily
changing the filters (and corresponding usages) makes good sense.
I suspect that if the filters were to insert <eol> at line boundaries
and return a single segement, most if not all existing code would
continue to work and a historical crock could be retired.

Jim Starkey