From: tomas.fasth@twinspot.net (Tomas Fasth) Subject: Re: More on getting coolview-bash to work with emacs 10 Dec 1997 06:44:06 -0800 Message-ID: <348E9F7D.FDD25961.cygnus.gnu-win32@twinspot.net> References: <199712091414.JAA06709@woodmore.gsfc.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Arlindo da Silva wrote: > This binary mode thing and bash has caused many people a lot of grief (and > e-mail traffic). Just a thought. Oh well, talking about grief. Isn't it amazing that three major platforms all use different protocols for text line termination? on MacOS, on Unix, and on DOS. Typical product differentiation in the age of platform warfare? Another classic cause for grief (at least for the non-ascii text communities) was (is?) the 7-bit (ascii) character masking found well into this decade in many (US originated?) software engineerings. Yet another cause for much grief was (is?) 16-bit offset pointers. We programmers are all a bunch of loosers, aren't we? ;-) Tomas - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".