On 2012-08-16, at 19:03 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:

> Almost, but not quite correct.
> 
> Unfortunately, that will corrupt a file that happened to have a bare 
> carriage-return
> character that wasn't part of a CR/LF pair.  (Of course, having such a 
> character
> embedded in the middle of a line is possibly a Bad Idea... but that's usually 
> not
> considered sufficient grounds for silent corruption of a file).

True, but in 20 years it has never once bitten me in practice.

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