From: grantl AT deerinet DOT nb DOT ca ("Grant Leslie") Subject: Re: ASCII and BINARY files. Why? 31 Jan 1997 03:23:48 -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 > From: Jim Balter > You have to accept *some* sort of imperfection. The argument that users > shouldn't be made to convert files is useless when the alternative is > that no tool can be used for both text and binary files. I for one would rather work to remove any sort of imperfections I had the ability to remove... > Loose talk about "the average Win95 user", a person who would have no > interest in these tools, ignores the other end, average and not so > average users who are familiar with these tools and want to fully take > advantage of their capabilities. These development tools are intended to develop software... This software which is created WILL eventually be placed in the hands of non-developers. Shouldn't every effort be made to remove as many idiosyncrasies as possible _before_ that happens?? From what I've read quite a few people would like to make money with the end products. I don't know exactly what Cygnus envisions for these tools, yet Im rather certain the companies they work with will be wanting them to create software for people other than just the software developers in that company. The tools themselves are not the end to the means.... - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".