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Re: Game Module Line Delimiters
- From: Lincoln Peters <sampln at sbcglobal dot net>
- To: Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>
- Cc: Xconq list <xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 21:57:32 -0800
- Subject: Re: Game Module Line Delimiters
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312130004300.6182-100000@leon.phy.cmich.edu>
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 21:11, Eric McDonald wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We should perhaps standardize on a style of line delimiter for
> game modules and IMF files. Three of them have Mac (CR)
> delimiters, and the rest are Unix (LF) delimiters:
>
> colonizer.g: ASCII English text, with CR line terminators
> pg.imf: ASCII text, with CR line terminators
> space-civ.g: ASCII English text, with very long lines, with
> CR line terminators
I find it odd that colonizer.g and space-civ.g would have Mac (CR)
delimeters, since I wrote both of them on the same Linux box.
>
> I would suggest the LF delimiters since that is what the bulk of
> the files already have, and it also makes grepping easier (a
> "line" containing a matching pattern won't end up being the
> entire file).
That makes sense to me, unless anyone thinks that Xconq modules need to
be readable in Windows Notepad.
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Lincoln Peters <sampln@sbcglobal.net>