Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: line endings as project policy

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:19:34 -0600, "Kelly F. 
Hickel" <address@hidden> said:

kfh> Richard, we have a version of cvs that runs on VMS.  It's been 10
kfh> years since I worked with RMS, but IIRC a C program could open a
kfh> file in text mode, printf a string like ""Hello World.\n" and
kfh> "the right thing" would happen.  Is that correct?
kfh> 
kfh> That would mean that the proposed file attribute would have to
kfh> control how mtn opened the file, but that seems "reasonable".

All correct.

Cheers,
Richard

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