Administrivia question: I'm getting a lot of duplicate responsese because the Reply-to on the list is set to sender. On moderated lists, this can be a good idea because the approval cycle causes a lag between posting and mail reflection.
Is the Reply-to merely a hint that we should consider taking topics offline, or is there some reason I should be leaving redundant addresses in the headers? At 11:05 AM 11/24/2002 -0500, Chris Nandor wrote: >But back to the point: there's been some discussion in this threa on >workarounds, but my personal feeling is that this is a bug, or at best a >broken feature, in perl. Some time ago, the capability was added to perl to >recognize and filter CRLF files to work on Unix and LF to work on Windows >(grep for PERL_STRICT_CR in toke.c). However, this functionality was not >extended to CR files, as it should have been, IMO. I think you're right. It's easier to move back and forth from Windows to Solaris than it is to move from one side of the Mac house to the other. This is undoubtedly broken, not just in perl, but on the Macintosh in general. Personally, I think that Apple would be wise to move to the Unix standard for text files. It would take several releases of confusion to do it, but that would be better than carrying forward this schizophrenia to future OS generations. The text file issue is one among many that make the Mac look like a machine running two independent operating systems (you can get this effect with Linux and Windows, without the confusion of thinking that you're running on a single integrated system). The right half of its brain does not know what the left hand is doing. While they're at it, they might drop file resource forks. The Unix side of the house quietly drops them in any file manipulation, but most Mac-native applications depend on them. If Apple doesn't want to give up its own peculiar file formats, then they ought to fix their Unix so it handles Macintosh files sensibly. Heather Madrone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.madrone.com Reality: deeper than I dreamed.
