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Re: More on getting coolview-bash to work with emacs


Arlindo da Silva wrote:

> This binary mode thing and bash has caused many people a lot of grief (and
> e-mail traffic). Just a thought.

Oh well, talking about grief. Isn't it amazing that three major
platforms all use different protocols for text line termination? <CR> on
MacOS, <LF> on Unix, and <CR><LF> on DOS. Typical product
differentiation in the age of platform warfare?
Another classic cause for grief (at least for the non-ascii text
communities) was (is?) the 7-bit (ascii) character masking found well
into this decade in many (US originated?) software engineerings.
Yet another cause for much grief was (is?) 16-bit offset pointers.

We programmers are all a bunch of loosers, aren't we? ;-)

Tomas
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