Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 00:40:55 +0100
From: Reinhard Katzmann
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Subject: Re: Win-Linux PMX text file transfers
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Hi Don!
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:09:36PM -0800, Don Simons wrote:
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<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>I've been experimenting with my latest
PMX di</underline><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>stribution from
> http://www.dslnorthwest.net/~don/pmx/pmx.html . It was created and
> sample .pmx files, Linux-PMX had all sorts of problems related to text
> line terminations. If on the other hand I retrieve the same .pmx files
> by ascii-mode FTP from a Win/DOS box, there are no such problems.
</color>Yes, the same happened to me as I first checked out pmx on a linux box
(pmxing the example files).
<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>> I suppose the CR-LF's are somehow surviving the
DOS-ZIP/Linux-unzip
> process, then confusing the Linux-compiled PMX.
</color>Yes, all the files inside an archive are binary, this would not make
a sense otherwise.
<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>> I wonder why the Linux compilers (g77 and also
lf95) did not suffer the
> same confusion that PMX did regarding the ends of lines.
</color>Not necessarily. gcc exists for Win*/Dos* as well, so maybe the treatment
is already included. I suppose it simply ignores the extra carriage return
(^M) character.
<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>> I can imagine that this behavior would irritate
people who only work in
> Linux, but I can't really recall anyone complaining in the past, and I
> really don't relish changing PMX to try to compensate for it. Any
> thoughts, discussion, suggestions?
</color>Well, I simply transformed you pmx-files with dos2unix, see the rpm spec
file included with the rpm archive. Also there are some standards concerning
this. Since Win95, the ISO -8859-1 Format is supported (newer versions
should
use ISO-8859-15 (Euro) format, but the main problem is, that at least the
notepad editor only works with the DOS Ascii format :-(
Wordpad and others have no problem with the normal Format, but I don't
know
what is the default Ascii format of Wordpad (maybe one can choose).
So the only useful solution: No support for DOS Ascii. I'm quite sure it will
vanish in the next years. (Hint: take a look at the file format of this mail)
Best regards,
Reinhard Katzmann
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