Re: DOCBOOK: README

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk>]

At 17:44 14/06/2002 +0200, 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 ?

yes.


>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 ?

Or carve it in stone ;-)

regards DaveP