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Subject: RE: Rationale for line-ending recommendation?
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:43:50 -0600
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[Followups set to -talk due to apropos but not-necessarily-Cygwin-specific
devolution of the discussion]

> From: Corinna Vinschen
> 
> On Dec 19 10:29, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > > From: Andrew DeFaria
> > > 
> > > Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > > >> Me too, and like you and the OP report, it "just works" 
> > > 99.44% of the
> > > >> time. Of course, since it's not the 21st century yet, many 
> > > >> Unixoid programs are still unable to handle text files 
> properly, 
> > > >> hence the remaining 0.66%.
> > > > 100 - 99.44 = 0.66? You're right - it's clearly not the
> > > 21st century
> > > > yet, since you seem to be using one of the original 
> > > > floating-point-bugged Pentium chips. ;-)
> > > Touche! Loved it!
> > > 
> > > BTW, it's the 21st century over here. Please try to catch up...
> > 
> > Another one who believes what their calendar tells them?  
> Then riddle 
> > me this Andrew: If this were in fact the 21st century (AKA "The 
> > Future"), why would we be be discussing software which is able to 
> > understand one text file format, but not a second 
> ever-so-slightly different text file format?
> 
> Yeah, right, if this were in fact the 21st century, why would 
> we ever have to deal with a 30 year old, 
> idiotic-from-the-start text file format using two line ending chars?
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 

A-MEN sister!  But how do you propose we get all these programs to
understand UTF-32 when we can't even get them to handle an extra '\r'
without starting on fire?

;-)

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
 


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