Thanks Ken and Matt, sounds like the last newline is a must-have. The fact that the Gnome editor forces it automatically adds to my enthusiasm for Gnome. cheers Rod
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 22:08 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: > On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 19:27 +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: > > Is there a standard for what comes after the last record in a file, on > > Linux/Unix ? > > I can tell you that some utilities fail to notice the last line if there > is not a newline on them. I had to raise a bug report on AIX using cut > because I wrote a program and forgot the linefeed and tested it > perfectly under Linux failed badly under AIX. > > So I would call the 'standard' to have it. Vim automatically includes > one when you edit the file without one. > > -- > Ken Foskey > OpenOffice.org developer > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
