From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: ASCII and BINARY files. Why?
1 Feb 1997 22:59:06 -0800
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Original-To: shankar AT chromatic DOT com (Shankar Unni)
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In-Reply-To: <32F0E84D.6845@chromatic.com> from "Shankar Unni" at Jan 30, 97 10:28:29 am
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Shankar Unni, you wrote:
> 
> > 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."
> 
> It's only the dumb old Windows tools like Notepad, and the DOS MORE.COM,
> which don't know how to handle Unix text files. Even Wordpad does the
> right thing. Of course, they all *export* text files using the <cr><nl>
> convention, but that's expected.

It may be expected by you, but it is still the sort of thing that can
cause lots of suprises and no end of trouble.

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