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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: variable length strings
Date: 26 Oct 2004 14:46:25 -0500
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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.