Subject: Re: ASCII and BINARY files. Why?
From: [email-masked] ("Grant Leslie")

29 Jan 1997 19:51:48 -0800
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> Korn's paper on UWIN says that he found that "many programs that
run
> on Windows NT do not require the <cr> in front of each <nl> in
order
> to work.  This difference turned out to be less of a problem that
(sic)
> we had originally expected."  I don't have enough experience to
> evaluate this claim.
> 
Personally in my experience Notepad is the only windows program that
cares about the <cr><lf> thing when loading the file, edit.com will
load stuff properly, however it will save with the <cr><lf>, as will
Write (Wordpad) and any other Windows text editors. Wouldn't life be
better if MS had though about Unix text files when writting
software??? ;-)

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