On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Remigiusz Modrzejewski <l...@maxnet.org.pl> wrote: > On Apr 4, 2011, at 22:55 , Stephan Beal wrote: >> On a related note: some tools (like cvs or svn) warn if a file's last line >> has no end-of-line marker. That's because (as i was taught, anyway) the >> official definition of a text file is basically variable-length records >> separated by a record separator (an end-of-line sequence (\n on *nix, \r\n >> on Windows)), and that the last record must also have such a separator. > > Actually, this way the definition says that the last line can not have a \n. > You > probably wanted to write "ended by a record separator", but then the word > separator is misleading ;)
I recall it being defined as variable length records, each ending with a record terminator, which was, because of the way teletype machine worked, CR-LF. (Though, with the real machine, LF-CR had the same end result.) Interestingly, Microsoft choose control-Z as end-of-file, rather than any of the other defined control values that might have been better. My guess is that that was because Z is the last letter of the alphabet, and Z being closest to the lower left corner of the keyboard. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
