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Re: Mac text files and gets()

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at bluefrog.?o?> Sep 14, 2007
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Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> I think that if a text file, being read in any environment, is found to
> contain
> a carriage-return in isolation, it is a reasonable assumption that it is
> intended
> by the file's creator that it represents the end of a text line. Under what
> circumstances would a '\r' by itself, in a text file, literally only means
> "move
> the cursor to the begining of the current display line" (which is what
> carriage
> return means).

Derek:

  What if you had a text file for a printer that had CR, Vt, FF, etc.

  embedded in it. Then what would happen ?

Bernie

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WMOTOR, XMOTOR, W32ENGIN, MIXEDLIB, EU_ENGIN, WIN32ERU, WIN32API 

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