These are interesting stories about line terminators. I agree on providing all the data. But I think absence of final terminator is more a stylistic issue (or a matter of choice) than a defect.
Hence, it more like truthful conveying than alerting cleanliness. Here's on cygwin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat > t1.txt one two [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat > t2.txt one two [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ od -c t1.txt 0000000 o n e \r \n t w o \r \n 0000012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ od -c t2.txt 0000000 o n e \r \n t w o 0000010 P.S. Unless, it's just an excuse to bash Microsoft again: picking on Excel, that "$" in the name... If you don't like it -- don't use it. Any program can do that: you can either put EOL at the end or not, so the chance is 50-50. :-) --- Joey K Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In any case, because of programs like Excel, any line reading > program should do its best to provide all the data - and should > likely alert the user that things didn't end cleanly... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
