Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3434 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Monday 2008-02-18 at 02:23 +0100, Philipp Thomas wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:29:32 +0100 (CET), Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> > I could say that *nix sucks because it does not use the standard CR-LF end of
> > line sequence.
>
> No, DOS sucks in way to many ways and one of them is that stupid CR-LF
> combo, which dates back to ancient CPM if I remember right. That is the
> reason, why text files have to be treated differently from binary files
> (in C the "b" open mode for file streams) because of the CR-LF handling.

Its your opinion. Mine is that Linux sucks because it mistakenly forgets 
to use both CR and LF to signal end of line, loosing useful functionality.

:-P  :-P  :-P

Seriously, text files are treated diferently for many reasons, and not 
only because of the crlf vs lf handling. Almost every operating system on 
Earth has a different text encoding from one another.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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