At 17:44 14/06/2002 +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: >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 ?
yes. >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 ? Or carve it in stone ;-) regards DaveP
