On 13-Jul-1999, Sven Panne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And a last remark about arithmetic on file positions, as pointed
> out by Fergus(Hender)son: One has to be careful about CR/LF vs LF,
> but this is not a problem in the real world,
There are lots of examples where this sort of things causes real problems in
practice. If you think this is not a problem in the real world then I suggest
you read the archives of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, which
discusses porting of Unix software to Windows using the Cygwin library.
(The archives are available at <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/>,
but unfortunately the automatic search option is currently broken.)
> ZIP works on M$, too! :-)
Yes, but ZIP files are binary files. The issues with CR/LF vs LF arise
with text files.
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