Hello David,
* On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 05:42:20PM -0900 David Abrahams wrote:
>
> Can anyone explain why the installer began recommending using *nix line
> ending conventions? DOS-compatible endings have always "just worked"
> for me and I've heard of lots of problems doing it the now-recommende
> From: Spiro Trikaliotis
>
> Hello David,
>
> * On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 05:42:20PM -0900 David Abrahams wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone explain why the installer began recommending using *nix
> > line ending conventions? DOS-compatible endings have
> always "just worked"
> > for me and I've heard
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According to David Abrahams on 12/18/2008 7:42 PM:
> Can anyone explain why the installer began recommending using *nix line
> ending conventions?
Because Unix line endings work out of the box with more programs, and
because it is faster, and because
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> Me too, and like you and the OP report, it "just works" 99.44% of the time.
> Of course, since it's not the 21st century yet, many Unixoid programs are
> still unable to handle text files properly, hence the remaining 0.66%.
100 - 99.44
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 06:34:19AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>According to David Abrahams on 12/18/2008 7:42 PM:
>>Can anyone explain why the installer began recommending using *nix line
>>ending conventions?
>
>Because Unix line endings work out of the box with more programs, and
>because it is fas
on Fri Dec 19 2008, Eric Blake wrote:
> By the way, the program 'd2u' is your friend.
I'm on *nix now to avoid all such issues, but yeah, when I have to run
Cygwin in a VM, it's a thing to keep in mind.
Thanks for all the responses everyone.
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boo
Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Me too, and like you and the OP report, it "just works" 99.44% of the
time. Of course, since it's not the 21st century yet, many Unixoid
programs are still unable to handle text files properly, hence the
remaining 0
> From: Andrew DeFaria
>
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> >> Me too, and like you and the OP report, it "just works"
> 99.44% of the
> >> time. Of course, since it's not the 21st century yet, many Unixoid
> >> programs are still unable to ha
On Dec 19 10:29, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > From: Andrew DeFaria
> >
> > Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > >> Me too, and like you and the OP report, it "just works"
> > 99.44% of the
> > >> time. Of course, since it's not the 21st centur
[Followups set to -talk due to apropos but not-necessarily-Cygwin-specific
devolution of the discussion]
> From: Corinna Vinschen
>
> On Dec 19 10:29, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > > From: Andrew DeFaria
> > >
> > > Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Gary R. Van Sickle
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Another one who believes what their calendar tells them?
Another one who doubts the calendar and can't do math...
Then riddle me this Andrew: If this were in fact the 21st century (AKA
"The Future"),
But you see that's the thing. It's not AKA "The Future" - it's now.
Hello Gary,
* On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 03:42:34AM -0600 Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > From: Spiro Trikaliotis
[...]
> > Oh, and Subversion is problematic, too. Because the SVN
> > developers decided to handle line endings on their own using
> > libapr, opening files in binary mode and reading and
> From: Spiro Trikaliotis
>
> Hello Gary,
>
Hey Spiro,
> * On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 03:42:34AM -0600 Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > > From: Spiro Trikaliotis
> [...]
> > > Oh, and Subversion is problematic, too. Because the SVN
> developers
> > > decided to handle line endings on their own usin
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> Yeah, right, if this were in fact the 21st century, why would we ever
> have to deal with a 30 year old, idiotic-from-the-start text file format
> using two line ending chars?
How quickly we forget...
The first devices that had any und
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:12:11PM -0500, Linus Hicks wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, right, if this were in fact the 21st century, why would we ever
>> have to deal with a 30 year old, idiotic-from-the-start text file format
>> using two line ending ch
Linus Hicks wrote:
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Yeah, right, if this were in fact the 21st century, why would we ever
have to deal with a 30 year old, idiotic-from-the-start text file format
using two line ending chars?
How quickly we forget...
Great summary! I
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