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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: README
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
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