James Jones wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I added a line to my prefs.js file in my mozilla_home subdir. > > > The system editor in OS/2, e.exe, tacks a ^Z onto the end of text files > edited with it. (This dates back to CP/M, which didn't bother to keep > track of file sizes save to the extent of knowing how many sectors they > used on the disk, so that text files had to have their ends marked with > ^Z to keep text-processing programs from reading the up-to-a-sector's > worth of garbage after what should have been the end of file. > > Mozilla doesn't deal with that ^Z very well at all, I found out the hard > way. The solution is to use another editor and get rid of the ^Z. > > James Jones >
The true solution is to get Mozilla to adhere to standards, one of which is ANSI. Text files end with a control z character. ISO has even adopted that standard. It is pure BS that it does not. -- Bill <Have a Good April Fool's Day>
