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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: README
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
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