On Tuesday 22 April 2008, Charlie Reitzel wrote: > Sounds like a job for a filter/sub-routine that simply sets the perl line > separator variable for your application. Put another way, it should be > fairly simple to separate the business logic from the desired output line > ending. > > Btw, Macs use a plain CR as the line ending for text files. >
As far as I know, that's the case only for Mac OS 9 and below - i.e: the Macs before Mac OS X. Mac OS X has converted to LF, similar to most other UNIXes (Linux, the BSDs, Solaris, etc.). > Of course, the HTTP response headers use CR+LF on any/all platforms. > Yes, but not the content. More information: 1. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/08/17/understanding-newlines.html 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline Regards, Shlomi Fish > At 09:54 AM 4/22/2008 -0400, Jun Wan wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I am developing a web app, where the server needs to generate text > > document and send back to browser and other client. Windows users often > > open it in notepad, so I want it formatted properly there. However, the > > line break is different on Windows (\r\n) and Unix (\n), I can of course > > detect the client type and generate the text document accordingly, but > > this is rather difficult due to our specific business logic and also we > > want to keep the text generation logic rather simple. I am wondering if > > there are other ways around this, for example, to set the mime type to > > application/rtf so that wordpad is used to open the doc in windows. > >Any other ideas? > > > >Jun > > > >---- > >Jun Wan > >GenomeQuest, Inc. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Boston-pm mailing list > >Boston-pm@mail.pm.org > >http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > Boston-pm@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Understand what Open Source is - http://xrl.us/bjn82 The bad thing about hardware is that it sometimes work and sometimes doesn't. The good thing about software is that it's consistent: it always does not work, and it always does not work in exactly the same way. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
