Hi Alan and Hazen,

>
> An additional format issue I just thought of for these ascii colour  
> palette
> files is line endings.  Presumably some of our Windows users will  
> want to
> edit these files directly (since they have no access to -dev tk or the
> associated colour palette GUI) so the resulting ascii files will  
> have the
> Windows line endings (\cr followed by \nl as opposed to the Unix \nl).
> Also, assuming that we use the svn native line ending property for  
> these
> files, our Windows users will checkout a version of our official  
> palette
> files that have the windows line endings. I presume the Windows line  
> endings
> means the null-terminated string returned by pdf_rd_header will have  
> a \cr
> prepended to that null termination which will require a bit of care
> when parsing that string (or a special provision in pdf_rd_header to
> remove the \cr if it exists and the platform is windows).

AFAIK, fscanf ignores any white space including line breaks - it just  
"overreads" it. So, it also doesn't make sense to do

fscanf(file, "%lf\n", var);

just use

fscanf(file, "%lf", var);

Regards,
Werner

>
> Alan
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