On Oct 26, 2005, at 5:17 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
Just a nit: 5 years ago that was true. Now \n is "native"
Was that part of the OS/X migration, or otherwise? Just curious.
<nod> Part of the migration. OS X /is/ unix. Ok, I'm sure that's an
inaccurate statement and I trust the more experienced Apple guys here
will gently correct me. But it really is... ;-)
but most Mac software is pretty tolerant of newline representation
due to its history.
Of course, that only makes it *more* of a mess, and *less* likely that
gcc is going to please everyone :-P
Yeah, I figured I should've defined "tolerant" a little better. :-)
-Howard
