Re: Unixen and Dosfish

[Shawn Pringle <pringle@uvic.ca>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Dennis Payne wrote:

> the return.  Perhaps a toggle at the bottom (or elsewhere) of the window
> that indicates whether it is a DOS or Unix text file.  Or possibly add
> the ability to convert on save as.  (Don't know what to do about a
> partial DOS, partial UNIX text file.)
> 
> dulsi@identicalsoftware.com

I would even go so far as to allow macintosh line breaks to be read
in and wrote out.  '\r' is Mac, '\n' is unix, and DOS is a combinaton
of the two.  BBEdit is a nice example of an editor that does it,
unfortunately it is available only for the Macintosh.

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