X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:30:55 -0500 From: "Mark J. Reed" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Rationale for line-ending recommendation? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <877i5wlwc3.fsf@mcbain.luannocracy.com> <20081219090531.GV14886@trikaliotis.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Me too, and like you and the OP report, it "just works" 99.44% of the time. > Of course, since it's not the 21st century yet, many Unixoid programs are > still unable to handle text files properly, hence the remaining 0.66%. 100 - 99.44 = 0.66? You're right - it's clearly not the 21st century yet, since you seem to be using one of the original floating-point-bugged Pentium chips. ;-) -- Mark J. Reed -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/