Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 10:16:12 -0400
From: Jens Yllman <jens.yllman@mailbox.swipnet.se>
Subject: linebreaks...

 Hello.

 I read in the description of the diffrent propertyvalues that in 'Text'
type linebreaks should be LF only. Does this apply to the whole SGF file? I
think that we should not specify this. I think the programs should be able
to handle LF or LFCR or CR. That way users can still read the SGF file in
their favorite text editor. One more thing. In the 'Text' type text it says
that LF equals \n in C. That is NOT true. On UNIX systems yes. But on
MS-DOS/MS-Windows \n equals LFCR. So you can not realy use \n in cases like
this. If you want to be sure what character is read/written, use binary
files and use the real values for the character you want. I've compiled
SGFC v0.6 on my MS-Windows NT machine but I've not checked this yet. Do
you, Arno, use \n in SGFC? It's not that hard to make the diffrence between
systems transparent to your program. I think though that when you write
files. Use the same linebreak through the file. For me it does not matter
which.

 Jens Yllman