At 16:30 -0800 11/19/02, Heather Madrone wrote: >I've already encountered a few text file anomalies on OS X. Most GUI applications >seem to default to Mac-style text files (linefeeds only),
I think that's returns only for Mac style. Don't be fooled by MPW's and perhaps MacPerl's redefinition of \n and \r in the reverse sense from the rest of the world. I recommend use of linefeed only - ASCII 10 - for all future work in perl. BBEdit has no trouble with that. If you're even a little bit involved with moving perl scripts to some UNIX server where your web pages are based you'll find that your scripts move effortlessly with any kind of file transfer. <OT> The internet norm is a linefeed-return pair which is really strange because in the days of teletype one sent the return first because it took longer than the linefeed and one needed a few null characters to be sure the operation completed at 100 baud. Of course you had the option of sending the return only and repeating the line to get a bold appearance. If you don't believe that look at a UNIX man page with repeated characters and backspaces. </OT> -- --> There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't <--