Re: text versions of ID and RFCs

Tony Hansen <tony@att.com> Thu, 11 November 2010 05:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: text versions of ID and RFCs
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  Use ftp to retrieve them. Set ASCII mode. Your line ending problems 
will be solved.

     Tony

On 11/10/2010 10:26 PM, Yaakov Stein wrote:
>
> When retrieving IDs or RFC from the tools.ietf.org or 
> datatracker.ietf.org the file has only LFs
>
> rather than CR+LF.
>
> Yes, it is easy enough to convert this for simple reading on Windows 
> machines,
>
> but it is inconvenient to have to do this every time.
>
> Could it be possible to change the default here ?
>