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In article <8811280644.AA14253@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	On an IBM-PC, yes.  The IBM-PC uses the CR-LF combinations instead
>of just an LF.  Since STDIO defines the 'new line' to be just an LF, 
>C implementations on the IBM's must filter out the CR's when reading and
>add them when writing.  Unfortunetly, the idiots (not just Lattice, but
>essentially ALL the IBM-PC implementations) made the default 'text'.
Well, for almost ALL the programs that one finds in K&R (or Software Tools),
this is a reasonable default.  The correct solution could have been to make all
files on the IBM have only a LF (actually a New-Line) at the end and then all
would be fine.  Personally, I think that the odds of this happening are about
0 (and maybe a little less)
>  A simple fopen("blah", "r") on an IBM *assumes* translation, which is stupid.
>The default can usually be changed by modifying a global variable, but it
>doesn't make porting much easier.
>
>	Even worse, the low-level IO routines as implemented on most
>C compilers on IBM's also do translation!
This is because you must be able to SEEK on the file AS IF there were no
CR/LF sequence.  This causes much trouble when it comes to implementation.
Oh yes, did I mention that people expect open, read and write as shown in
K&R to work on MS-DOS with their standard text files with NO change?
>
>	On the Amiga, no.  There is no translation done.  There had better
>NOT be any translation!  On the Amiga a 'new line' is a single LF which is
>compatible with STDIO (i.e. UNIX, which was what stdio was built on).  A
>simple fopen("blah", "r") on the Amiga is 'binary', and there is no
>difference between binary and text.
>					-Matt
Have you looked at the implementation on the Amiga?  If you did then you would
see that there is not a translation.  However, there are -people that expect,
no make that DEMAND that the files they transferred over with XMODEM from a
PC be readable on the Amiga in the same manner that they could be read under
MS-DOS - WITHOUT them having to translate the file in the slightest.  There
is NO solution that satisfies everyone - only compromises.  One should take
the best default for the appropriate system to make the most people happy.
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