X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:02:14 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Rationale for line-ending recommendation? Message-ID: <20081219170214.GX6830@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <877i5wlwc3.fsf@mcbain.luannocracy.com> <20081219090531.GV14886@trikaliotis.net> <452D2288F0FE4F1898E686A227A022BD@DFW5RB41> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <452D2288F0FE4F1898E686A227A022BD@DFW5RB41> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) 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 On Dec 19 10:29, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > From: Andrew DeFaria > > > > Mark J. Reed wrote: > > > 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. ;-) > > Touche! Loved it! > > > > BTW, it's the 21st century over here. Please try to catch up... > > Another one who believes what their calendar tells them? Then riddle me > this Andrew: If this were in fact the 21st century (AKA "The Future"), why > would we be be discussing software which is able to understand one text file > format, but not a second ever-so-slightly different text file format? Yeah, right, if this were in fact the 21st century, why would we ever have to deal with a 30 year old, idiotic-from-the-start text file format using two line ending chars? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/