[gopher] Re: How to handle lines beginning by a dot?

[Cameron Kaiser <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Another question - How should I handle text files which contain a line with
> only a dot (".")?

That is a fascinating question. There is no <crlf> after it, so I would say
print it as is, a one-byte binary file if you like.

This was one of the decisions I didn't like that was made in the protocol,
but there we are. OTOH, it does make things like limited pipelining possible.

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