On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:14:50AM +0000, John Chambers wrote: > 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.
So all we can do is, find all abc programs that aren't being maintained, and document the common subset :( -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
