cr, lf, and reading in terminals/vim

[Richard Gaskin]

Ben Rubinstein wrote:

 > Brian Milby wrote:
 >> My suggestion is to just bite the bullet and build LC where 'file'
 >> exports using LF on Mac
 >
 > Oh please yes!

Seconded.

Containing the scope of the remedy to text writes should affect very 
few, and those affected will probably welcome the change.

What needs to be done to move this forward?


Bob Sneidar  wrote:
 > Upon examining the ascii value of every line terminator I discovered
 > something, perhaps the OS or the software itself, converted the
 > terminators to something else. I also find this practice to be not
 > just confusing, but reprehensible.

LC supports two write modes: text and binary.  Perhaps the editor you'd 
used supports the equivalent of LC's text mode, where the data is indeed 
altered to provide greater convenience for cross-platform line-endings, 
replacing NULLs with spaces, etc.  This is consistent with how HyperTalk 
established writes, and I've seen some text editor packages do similar 
things.

When you need to preserve data as-is, use binary mode.

Thankfully LC provides both.  HyperCard provided only text mode, and 
SuperCard only binary mode.  I like being able to use each depending on 
what I'm doing.

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