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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: am fails to apply patches for files with CRLF lineendings
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:18:27 +0100
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Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com> writes:

> But isn't each email in the mbox file supposed to be RFC-2822
> formatted anyway?=C2=A0 If so, then my reading of RFC-2822 says that =
there
> should only be CRLF everywhere and no bare CR or bare LF.=C2=A0 But m=
aybe
> everyone has just been ignoring that part of RFC-2822?=C2=A0 I'm not =
an
> email expert, so I really don't know.

RFC 2822 specifies a *transport* format, where each text lines is
represented by terminating it with CRLF.  Any other use is outside the
scope of that RFC.  The mbox format normally uses the native format for
text files, which means LF terminated lines when used under Unix.

Andreas.

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