Oh dear, think of all the IBM mainframe users that would prefer 0x85 for line separators but then again, CR/LF should work for VMS (and of course also for CP/M).
kind regards Peter Ring -----Original Message----- From: Yann Dirson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14. juni 2002 17:44 To: Phil Griffin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: README On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 08:25:34AM -0400, Phil Griffin wrote: > The readme.txt file appears as a single line of > characters interspersed with black blobs when > opened on a Windows box using the Notepad program. Isn't Notepad an obsolete and mostly unmaintained program ? IIRC other apps (including wordpad) in recent versions of windows are able to read them correctly. > Suggest that this file be corrected and uploaded > as a bin file to avoid the annoying unixification > of the line feeds. The problem there will be that we on Unix platforms will get the useless supplementary that inherit the algorithm of mechanic typewriters :) Maybe the best solution would be to provide a README.msdos with the legacy linefeeds ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager Responsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debian developer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) D�veloppeur Debian
