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From: Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Appending "\n" and pretty printing output from the command line
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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:31:46 +0200
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On Aug 22, 2008, at 13:52, Noah Slater wrote
>> We could try and guess if a "human user-agent" is making the  
>> request but I
>> doubt that we can make that reliable.
>
> Perhaps you are conflating the issues here. It's not about  
> prettifying the
> output for humans, it's about correcting the text file format per  
> the standards
> so that the regular UNIX toolchain can process it without problems.

I am aware that we are discussing multiple things here. I want CouchDB's
output to be correct as possible, even if my statements here are  
incorrect.

See my next mail.

Cheers
Jan
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