On 21 Feb 2002, at 14:01, David K. Trudgett wrote:

> On Thursday 2002-02-21 at 12:30:18 +1100, Helen Borrie wrote:
>
> > >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)....
>
> Ahhhhh... :-) the mists have now receded...

How about making Microsoft admit that LF, CR, CRLF are all valid
alternatives (again). It's funny but edit (distributed with DOS) would
recognize that LF was a valid end-of-line delimiter, but notepad, et
al do not. Go figure....

> With regard to UDF libraries, has anyone thought about whether it
> would make sense to distribute a wider range of UDFs with the standard
> Firebird distribution (or even a "premium" distribution)? I thought
> that, as long as the UDFs are portable among the platforms upon which
> Firebird runs, it would be very helpful if a couple of the most useful
> UDF libraries (or just the most universally useful functions from
> those libraries) were brought together for inclusion with Firebird.
>
> I see that something like this would be necessary to make Firebird
> compare more favourably with other RDBMSs that have copious numbers of
> functions for every conceivable purpose (OK, I exaggerate).
>
> I suppose this would either mean an expanded role for ib_udf or
> fb_udf, and/or additional standard UDF libraries that are maintained,
> tested and distributed for all platforms with Firebird (or Firebird
> "Premium" perhaps).
>
> Perhaps this can be carried over to IBDI since it has wandered off the
> support agenda.
>
>
> David Trudgett
>
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Paul Schmidt
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