Re: [MacPerl] Executing MacPerl script on a PeeCee

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 12.03 -0400 1999.04.13, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
><rant>
>The 50% where I was actually thinking about this topic I'm afraid I let my
>personal grouchiness over this whole linend business creep in. :-) My
>personal opinion, for what it's worth, is just every one sit down, agree
>on one line-end, and be done with it. And maybe then they can call this
>character a LINEEND, instead of "carriage return" or something similarly
>absurd.
></rant>

Unfortunately, I don't think this can happen.  I've gone through a 12-step
program on this, and I have accepted that which I can't change.  :)


>I pontificated too soon, anyway. I'm so used to batch-converting all my
>text files back and forth between 3 OS's that I never thought of it as a
>problem anymore.

For most people, it isn't.  But for people who either are not clued as to
newlines, or mount volumes from disparate filesystems (like the many people
who mount Windows volumes on Unix and vice-versa).  There is also the
occasional mistake even clued people make when transferring files.

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