David Webber writes: | | Forgive me if this has been suggested before but could not a double | | !! | | be used to indicate a line break. This would be consistent with | the !whatever! usage with absence of any characters indicating a | line break. | | It still leaves existing files as a problem for software to read, | but there's no way 100% certain round that, especially with some of | the examples given :-(
This wouldn't work. It would require that Jim Vint change abc2win to work this way. But if he were willing to do that, he would have already changed abc2win to work like the abc standard says, and we wouldn't have a problem. So we'd end up with some files using !! for breaks, others (those from abc2win) using !, while others (those using the od standard) using newlines. That would be even messier than the current situation. Solutions that require a change in abc2win aren't solutions at all. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
