From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: variable length strings
Date: 26 Oct 2004 14:46:25 -0500
Date: 2004-10-26T14:46:25-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E8Z9+0HhYmK8@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: n0xfd.7175$d5.60027@newsb.telia.net
In article <n0xfd.7175$d5.60027@newsb.telia.net>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= <spam-away@nowhere.nil> writes:
> Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
>
>> I think it is reasonable that text files be in the correct
>> format for the platform in use. If they are not, then they require
>> conversion. I also accept that from a practical point of view, we
>> all like it to adapt anyway ;-)
>
> The way I see it, the unfortunate reality is that any program that=20
> processes text files needs to handle both LF, CR and CR-LF, and maybe=20
> NEL too (and record-based files on such platforms I suppose), as well as =
> both presence and absence of a line break at the end of the last line.=20
VAX/DEC/Compaq/HP Ada on VMS (and presumably GNAT on VMS) have that
under control just by making the operating system call that takes
care of such differences.
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2004-10-21 17:52 variable lenght strings fabio de francesco
2004-10-21 21:22 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-21 22:42 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-21 23:14 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-22 7:38 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-22 12:30 ` fabio de francesco
2004-10-22 7:29 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-22 13:01 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-24 15:46 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-24 19:54 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-24 21:30 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-25 4:02 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-21 23:01 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-21 23:05 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-22 7:25 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-22 11:11 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-24 15:43 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-24 17:39 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-24 18:37 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-25 7:30 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-26 0:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-10-26 1:53 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-26 8:49 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-26 11:18 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-26 12:48 ` variable length strings Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-26 16:11 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-10-26 18:50 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-26 19:46 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2004-10-26 8:43 ` variable lenght strings Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-10-26 13:15 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-26 17:37 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-26 18:07 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-10-26 20:10 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-27 10:26 ` variable length strings Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-27 10:39 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-27 11:47 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-28 7:18 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-27 11:50 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <uwtxcla1n.fsf@obry.Organization: LJK Software <PTzuwe3GsIg6@eisner.encompasserve.org>
2004-10-27 12:12 ` Samuel Tardieu
2004-10-27 12:58 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-27 13:04 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-27 14:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-27 16:38 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-28 8:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-28 8:49 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-28 9:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-28 16:07 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-28 22:05 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-28 22:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-10-29 1:11 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-29 7:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-28 10:31 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-26 18:13 ` variable lenght strings Martin Krischik
2004-10-27 12:01 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-10-26 17:46 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-28 22:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-10-28 23:01 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-29 21:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-10-29 8:48 ` Dale Stanbrough
2004-10-29 9:11 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-24 18:38 ` Why these "Drop" parameters? (was: variable lenght strings) Björn Persson
2004-10-26 0:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-11-01 1:02 ` Why these "Drop" parameters? Björn Persson
2004-11-01 19:59 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-10-24 18:57 ` variable lenght strings Jeffrey Carter
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1989-06-04 7:03 Variable Length strings "Jonathan B. Owen"
1989-06-02 16:19 Variable Length Strings Thomas Hoyt
1989-06-02 13:26 "Jonathan B. Owen"
1989-06-06 13:19 ` Paul Warren
1989-05-30 15:39 Variable length strings Thomas Hoyt
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