From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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Subject: Re: Writing a struct to disk
Date: 26 Aug 1997 06:32:32 GMT
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"John M. Aldrich" (fighteer AT cs DOT com) writes:
> Cesar Scarpini Rabak wrote:
>> 
>> Text format is not _that_ highly portable! When one switches from
>> environment the way the end of line is marked varies, and filters or
>> converting programms may be needed...
> 
> True.  However, a great many programs that I have seen are capable of
> recognizing EOLs, whatever their format.  For example, DOS Edit can load
> and parse Unix-formatted text files.  I guess they're just designed with
> that in mind.

Yeah and WIndows Notepad can't, even the souped up version with WIndows
95. :P

> C may not require one, but characters 32-127 of the ASCII character set
> are pretty well fixed on most systems.  I suppose that machines using
> that IBM format, EDB-whatsit, could cause confusion, but anybody who
> uses such systems should be aware of the discrepancy.

EBSDIC? Eb's Dick??? Anyone whose computer uses that instead of ASCII,
should get a newer computer. :)


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