Thanks, Rick! Good link. -Matt
--- Rick Genter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only other reference I found at apple.com was > this: > > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/ > Articles/FileSystemGuidelines.html > > It seems pretty explicit though: "Mac OS X uses the > \n character by > itself to represent the end of a line." They do go > on to say that when > reading files, however, applications should support > \n, \r, and \n\r to > promote interoperability. > > -- > Rick Genter > Principal Engineer > Silverlink Communications > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (781) 425-5763 > > This e-mail, including attachments, may include > confidential and/or > proprietary information, and may only be used by the > person or entity to > which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail > is not the intended > recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader > is hereby notified > that any dissemination, distribution or copying of > this e-mail is > prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in > error, please notify > the sender by replying to this message and delete > this e-mail > immediately. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 9:58 AM > > To: Ant Developers List > > Subject: Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 39585] - Core task > > Condition/Os does not detect "Mac OS X" > > > > > ------- Additional Comments From > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 2006-05-17 01:55 ------- > > > I tried to scour the net and managed to find one > > > useful reference. Of course my > > > search was not exhaustive and i am not really a > Mac > > > developer so do not know how > > > to find authoritative references. > > > > > > > > > http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html > > > See "What are the rules for line endings?" > > > They also describe the problems that will be > > > encountered if UNIX-style line > > > endings are not used, e.g. 'grep' returns the > whole > > > file content as a "matching > > > line". > > > > > > I presume when they say "Mac-style" they mean > MacOs > > > prior to "Mac OS X". > > > > > > We have implemented a workaround by detecting > 'os > > > family="unix"' as per my > > > Comment #4, and specifically using > fixcrlf/@eol=unix > > > and otherwise using fixcrlf > > > with no @eol value. > > > > > > p.s. The initial issue Description should say: > "UNIX > > > LF" and the second sentence > > > should be ignored. See Comment #5. > > > p.p.s. You might want to change the issue > Summary. > > > > > > > Any of you OS X using Ant developers have an > opinion > > on this, esp. based on the link David provides > above? > > i.e. _should_ OS X's Unix-ness override its > Mac-ness > > with regard to line endings? This is actually an > easy > > question, come to think of it... if Java versions > on > > OS X continue to say that the System > line.separator > > property is CR, probably that's what fixcrlf > should do > > and we note the discrepancy in the manual. So if > > someone could verify the value of line.separator > on OS > > X, we can probably resolve this. Assuming noone > > disagrees with this means of resolving the issue. > > > > -Matt > > > > > -- > > > Configure bugmail: > > > > > > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email > > > ------- You are receiving this mail because: > ------- > > > You are the assignee for the bug, or are > watching > > > the assignee. > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
