On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Bryan Baldus wrote:
> When writing tests, should one take into account the file
> systems, or is the test end-user expected to deal with this?
I strongly recommend that you take it into account yourself. Fortunately,
that's easy...
> For example, in order to use dosEOFtest
I don't know if it is correct, but I tried to write a test for the
DOS EOF removal in MARC::File::USMARC [1]. This is the first test
file I've tried to write, so please let me know where I went wrong.
From the dosEOFtest.t file description:
Checks t/dosEOF.usmarc, which contains one record,
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If your software can be changed to not add 0x1a to the end of a MARC file
then by all means do so. (I don't believe you'll find a specific
prohibition against having it there in the standard, but neither will you
find language anticipating or allowing it. I'm ignoring padding issues for
recor
