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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: free versions of complex software (Re: So let's talk about FSF)
Message-ID: <540@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 88 16:37:44 GMT
References: <780@proxftl.UUCP> <600@sering.cwi.nl> <2133@stpstn.UUCP> <694@wsccs.UUCP>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <694@wsccs.UUCP>, dharvey@wsccs.UUCP (David Harvey) writes:
> In article <492@optilink.UUCP>, cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> > 
> > In particular, one of our people transferred a file from a Mac to a
> > Sun.  Macs use a different end-line convention -- CR, not LF, and CR LF.
> > This guy would do MORE FOO.C, and not only would MORE die, but it would
> > make the window he was working in go away as well.  As near as we can
> > tell, MORE doesn't bother to check if a line will fit into some internal
> > buffer, goes off the end, and returns some code to Sun Windows that
> > makes the window go away.
> > 
> > Clayton E. Cramer
> 
> If I am not mistaken, almost every communications program I am aware of
> allows the user to select CR-LF -> LF, LF -> CR-LF, etc.  If the fool
> isn't smart enough to check on this, he deserved what he got!  More to

Well, I guess this pretty well sums up the difference in attitudes
between the UNIX community, and the real world: UNIX hackers seem to
feel that software should only be used by knowledgeable experienced
UNIX hackers -- forget the rest of the world, and don't bother checking
for error conditions!

Also, the file was transferred via TOPS -- no such option.

> dharvey@wsccs









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Clayton E. Cramer
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