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Re: [Bug-tar] A question about common.h of Tar
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Bug-tar] A question about common.h of Tar |
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Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:16:02 -0700 |
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According to Xu Yibo on 12/10/2007 8:06 PM:
> Hello everybody,
> I have found some invisible characters just like ^L, when I open common.h
> with vi. I would like to ask two questions:
> What the function of the character is?
It is a separator (form-feed), to divide the file into logical sections.
> Is it a bug?
No. In fact, it is intentional, and is recommended by the GNU Coding
Standards (see the last paragraph of
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Formatting.html#Formatting)
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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