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From: Shankar Unni <shankar AT cotagesoft DOT com>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: /etc/hosts
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:33:47 -0700
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news AT garydjones DOT mailshell DOT com wrote:

> [...] (some lines with DOS-endings and some with *n*x-endings). 
 > I doubt Cygwin would have a problem with that, but I don't
 > really want to test what Windows would do.

Doesn't seem to faze Windows XP, anyway. I converted the file to unix 
line endings and threw in a few ^Ms here and there. Worked fine.

Can't answer for old stacks like Win95 and Win98, but I suspect they 
would also be able to handle this..
--
Shankar.




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