Text differences

[Johnny Billquist]

Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Ian King wrote:
>> > Source files should not be giving you a 'record problem' (since they're
>> > text) - but there is another potential issue.  I downloaded some BASIC
>> > source files on a PC, zipped them up and transferred them over to a VAX.
>> > I picked one to compile (this is BASIC we're talking about), and it
>> > failed with an error per line.  I opened up the file in TPU and
>> > discovered that there was a 'spurious' CR at the end of each line.  I
>> > removed those and everything compiled and linked.  Take a look at the
>> > line-level translation that may be happening.  -- Ian
> 
> New-line is not really standardized.

Definitely not.

> Although the machines may all claim to be using ASCII,
> newline may be represented by
> CR LF,
> CR,
> LF,
> or LF CR (rarest)

...or just a record end.

> The reasons are enough for a thread of its own.

If you even think that you can find a reason. :-)

	Johnny

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