Re: End-of-line on the Mac?
- From: Phlip <phlip2005@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:54:24 GMT
Rob Thorpe wrote:
To make things even more confusing many *nix and Mac programs will accept
Windows line ending because they are so common. Some Windows programs
accept *nix line endings too.
The only thing in all of computing that's stupider than some Win32
programs continuing to treat \n without \r as an input bug...
....is Apple's early decision to end lines on the Mac with \r.
The magnitude of this blatant idiocy ... there just aren't words.
And the result, instead of fixing the problem in their corporate sources -
is endless hacks and "features" in all our tools, just to deal with these
inconveniences in different and incompatible ways...
--
Phlip
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