>> For Windows. Many Windows programs expect Windows line-ends, just as >> most Unix programs expect Unix line-ends. > > In this case, are we mainly considering editors? > > Cursory Wikipedia surfing [1] indicates that the MS editors typically found > on Windows, only NotePad does not support non-Windows line endings. The > feature scale goes, ascending: Notepad, WordPad, MS Works, MS Word. > > Both Notepad and WordPad are the free editors that come with the system, but > if Windows users aren't aware of WordPad then it effectively doesn't exist. > Is it possible to associate the data files to open with WordPad?
Sure, but in that case the defaults of the installation would be changed for all .txt files. I don't think much users will be happy with that. :-) > >> Well, that's the question. I do not think that there is a "correct" >> choice here, but there is probably a choice that will cause less user >> confusion. My guess is that using Unix line ends everywhere will >> surprise users more than using native line ends by default. I agree. And more problematic, most users have no idea what happened and how to solve it. The more you write in a manual how to handle this, the more confusion you will create. {HT} _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list pspp-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev