Tobias Fiebig via mailop <[email protected]> writes:

> Besides: The CRLF thing is actually a bit funny; The RFC iirc just says
> 'delimited by', so i am not too sure whether it really must be at the
> end of the file; And then there is an errata clarifying that you can
> also delimit with LF instead of CRLF as mentioned in the RFC.

If I recall correctly, POSIX says that a line of text is not a line of
text unless it ends in a proper line ending marker.  I'm unsure of the
details, here, but I am sure that when, a few years ago, I dug deeply
into this, I concluded that the last line of a UNIX text file absolutely
has to end with an LF for the line to be unequivocally part of the file.

-tih
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