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>


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