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Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 08:33:38 -0700
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT latnet DOT lv>,
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Subject: Re: RFA: Ignore DOS end-of-line characters (ctrl-Z) unless -W
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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:09:20PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 8 May 2002, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> 
> > Original message (and patch) was due to a different reason: use of source
> > files originated from DOS under other systems (unfortunatelly read 
> > initial message not too carefully ...)
> 
> For other systems, I guess a warning under -W is okay.

With or without truncating the input file?

Is ^Z to be honored wherever it appears, or only immediately after a
newline sequence?

> > It reads in binary mode.
> 
> I hope only when the input comes from a file, not from a terminal.

It makes no distinction.  What goes wrong when one reads from a
terminal in binary mode under DOS?

(I'm not sure how to open a file in text mode using open(),
incidentally)

zw