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>


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