On Dec 19 10:29, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > From: Andrew DeFaria > > > > Mark J. Reed wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > >> Me too, and like you and the OP report, it "just works" > > 99.44% of the > > >> time. Of course, since it's not the 21st century yet, many Unixoid > > >> programs are still unable to handle text files properly, hence the > > >> remaining 0.66%. > > > 100 - 99.44 = 0.66? You're right - it's clearly not the > > 21st century > > > yet, since you seem to be using one of the original > > > floating-point-bugged Pentium chips. ;-) > > Touche! Loved it! > > > > BTW, it's the 21st century over here. Please try to catch up... > > Another one who believes what their calendar tells them? Then riddle me > this Andrew: If this were in fact the 21st century (AKA "The Future"), why > would we be be discussing software which is able to understand one text file > format, but not a second ever-so-slightly different text file format?
Yeah, right, if this were in fact the 21st century, why would we ever have to deal with a 30 year old, idiotic-from-the-start text file format using two line ending chars? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
