Sujet : Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?
De : rjh (at) *nospam* cpax.org.uk (Richard Heathfield)
Groupes : sci.cryptDate : 22. Feb 2025, 09:57:02
Autres entêtes
Organisation : Fix this later
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On 22/02/2025 08:19, David Entwistle wrote:
On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:36:18 +0000, Richard Heathfield wrote:
Irrelevant, I'm afraid, David.
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I don't believe so.
Any newsreader will have at its heart a terminal emulation function, where
the characteristics of the early electromechanical terminals are
accurately reproduced via software.
Why? That's not how I would write a newsreader. What possible value could it have?
Although convenient to forget that, it
remains true.
Citation needed, as they say.
The details of the implementation of the caret control set
will have depended on the details of the emulation chosen.
Assumes "facts" not in evidence.
The newsreader software developers may, like us, may have forgotten about
this detail but it will remain embedded in any software that has been with
us for as long as USENET.
Deeply unlikely in my opinion. Would anyone else care to comment?
For more recently developed readers, the
behaviour may be less well defined. In either case it would be unwise to
assume that sending a caret followed by a capital letter A to the reader
will result in those two characters being displayed.
I don't see why; I really don't. A newsreader that screwed up so badly would quickly be condemned as unusable.
A perfectly correct
and compliant implementation will not. If the emulation says it should
treat it as a control sequence, that is what it will do.
Then the newsreader, if that's how it works, remains broken for the same reason I outlined in my last article. A newsreader that cannot correctly render the following code:
out=in^key;
is not fit for purpose in sci.crypt.
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