[gopher] Line terminators in Gopher transactions

Tue May 22 03:21:25 UTC 2012

On Tue, 22 May 2012, 05:49:55 EEST, Kim Holviala <kim at holviala.com> wrote:

> Traditionally all TCP protocols have used CRLF as the line ending. Major
> pain in the ass for both clients and servers, but such is life.

The CRLF comes from the original printer meaning of those two ASCII codes: Carriage Return and Line Feed. If you wanted to be at the start of the next line, you needed both.

- Kim