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Re: Why text=binary mounts
- To: marcus at bighorn dot dr dot lucent dot com
- Subject: Re: Why text=binary mounts
- From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <benny at crocodial dot de>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 19:52:50 +0100
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: Crocodial Communications EntwicklungsGmbH
- References: <199801121659.JAA21386@chorus.dr.lucent.com>
marcus@bighorn.dr.lucent.com wrote:
> ... I
> always thought that the original intent was that \n would represent whatever
> the local newline character was, whether it was LF or something else. I have
> never seen this pairing broken, and I'm sure it was wreck havoc on many
> programs if it was changed.
While we are at the topic of history, actually Apple's own C compiler
for MacOS switches those two so that in that dialect \n *is* the text
file line delimiter. And yes this *does* "wreck havoc on many programs".
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Crocodial Communications EntwicklungsGmbH
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