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Re: README
- From: Phil Griffin <phil dot griffin at asn-1 dot com>
- To: Yann Dirson <ydirson at fr dot alcove dot com>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:55:25 -0400
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: README
- Organization: Griffin Consulting - http://ASN-1.com
- References: <3D09E0BE.6F5B3312@asn-1.com><20020614154414.GG5152@champlain.alcove-fr>
Call it DOS if you wish. Windows is where almost all
of my customers (and most of the world) hang out. Do
as you wish.
Phil
Yann Dirson wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 08:25:34AM -0400, Phil Griffin wrote:
> > The readme.txt file appears as a single line of
> > characters interspersed with black blobs when
> > opened on a Windows box using the Notepad program.
>
> Isn't Notepad an obsolete and mostly unmaintained program ? IIRC
> other apps (including wordpad) in recent versions of windows are able
> to read them correctly.
>
> > Suggest that this file be corrected and uploaded
> > as a bin file to avoid the annoying unixification
> > of the line feeds.
>
> The problem there will be that we on Unix platforms will get the
> useless supplementary that inherit the algorithm of mechanic
> typewriters :)
>
> Maybe the best solution would be to provide a README.msdos with the
> legacy linefeeds ?
>
> --
> Yann Dirson <Yann.Dirson@fr.alcove.com> http://www.alcove.com/
> Technical support manager Responsable de l'assistance technique
> Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres
> Debian developer (dirson@debian.org) Développeur Debian