Subject: Re: How to fix CRLF stuff...
From: Donald Lee (donlee_nat@icompute.com)
Date: Sat Feb 17 2001 - 02:28:22 EST
I want to counsel caution on this feature.
One vital design element is simplicity, because data integrity
is pretty important, and testing is hard. Complexity invariably
introduces errors, both in the code and in operation.
The schemes that I am seeing pass by are not simple and elegant.
They introduce multiple passes on the data, special flag bits, special
handling for upgrades, asynchronous processes etc, etc.
Be careful out there. Make certain that the cure is not
worse than the disease.
-dgl-
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