Re: Dos line endings

[Mark Summerfield]

On Monday 21 January 2002 23:08 pm, Albert Kinderman wrote:
[snip]
> Therefore, here is my wishlist (for Jeff to consider when he gets
> back)
>
> Either
>
> 1) Lout should ignore the extra carriage returns when processing
> files so that no errors are generated.  The linefeed would act as
> the end of line character as far as lout was concerned for both
> Dos and unix. (This might be a bad thing -- do carriage returns
> have another use?  -- do some fonts use /015 octal for a
> character?)
>
> or
>
> 2) The problem(s) and solution should be clearly documented.
>
> In light of 2), are there other problems you have encountered with
>
> lout caused by Dos line endings?
>
>
> Al

I believe that lout also compiles on Macs which use 015 as their line
terminator. My suggestion would be to treat LF, CRLF and CR as LF
internally. This would mean that any lout file would work without hassle
on any system (that I know of). 

-- 
Mark.