ugh, mistake...

[Russ Allbery]

rone <rone at ennui.org> writes:

> That overview was messed up because i hadn't realized that
> overview.DAT lines end with an extra ^M (why is that, anyway?).

The format was chosen so that nnrpd can just cat the file to the client
rather than needing to do line ending conversion on each line for the CRLF
requirement of the NNTP protocol.  (If I understand the question
properly.)

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>