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Re: Rationale for line-ending recommendation?


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...
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