Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 18:22:02 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Arno Hollosi <hollosi@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>
Subject: Re: linebreaks...


I think you misunderstood me.

- SGF is a text format (there's no doubt about that - SGF files
  may be sent via email or be posted to newsgroups without further
  encoding)

- BUT: SGF is not intended to be human-readable.
  (Dave: LOA files may be easy to edit by hand, but think
  about variations - they aren't really intuitive, are they?)

- I SUGGEST reading SGF files in binary mode as many weird
  characters may appear which may cause strange behaviour if
  the file is read/written in text mode.

- applications should be able to deal with following linebreaks:
  LF, CR, LFCR, CRLF

- Why should apps not write files in a coherent style, i.e.
  linebreaks as LF?
  Should I remove this from the spec?

/Arno