At 09:48 AM 21-02-02 +1100, David Trudgett wrote:

I had written

>> The problem with this UDF is that it's going to store a carriage
>> return and line feed regardless of which platform the database is
>> running on. If the db is on another platform, the line break is
>> different, e.g. it is LFCR on Mac, and it's LF alone on the *nixes.
>> (someone needs to put this right some time...)
>
>It's just CR on Mac.


>As for fixing it, who wants to be the first to
>make Win & Mac use only LF? :-) Clue: it ain't gonna happen ;-) OTOH,
>Max OS/X is FreeBSD based, so presumably Macs now use LF for end of
>line... unless Apple hacked all the source to make it CR instead... a
>perilous undertaking...

Ummmm....though it sounds like a wonderful, one-world idea, it wasn't what I meant...I meant, someone would need to fix the UDF sometime (add support for the non-Win linebreak alternatives)....

cheers,
H

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