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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:07:08 -0500
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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In-reply-to: <17817.990217@is.lg.ua> (message from Paul Sokolovsky on Wed, 17
	Feb 1999 19:37:11 +0200)
Subject: Re: Cygwin B20 - fseek under gcc fails to reposition on text files
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>    And finally, from where all this stuff might be originated - it may
> be done whatever wanted, but if, when writing to console we get clobbered
> output without carrage returns, it doesn't cost a cent. That's where
> myth of win32 speciality breaks down - Win32 console, as any other
> console in cooked mode (Linux, say) performs implicit cr after lf,
> when there's no explicit.

To add fact to the myth, if you bring up such a file (\n without \r)
in notepad, it does not do the right thing - it very explicitly looks
for the CR/LF pair to mean a line ending, and no other ending will do.

Batch files also cannot have NL endings - they need CR/LF endings.

Of course, this really just means that the programmers were
short-sighted, but it's still a fact we must live with.

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