From: grantl AT deerinet DOT nb DOT ca ("Grant Leslie") Subject: Re: ASCII and BINARY files. Why? 29 Jan 1997 19:51:48 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "GNU-WIN32" X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1160 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > Korn's paper on UWIN says that he found that "many programs that run > on Windows NT do not require the in front of each 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 thing when loading the file, edit.com will load stuff properly, however it will save with the , 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??? ;-) - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".