LF vs. CR/LF (WAS: Problems with libtiff!)

[Peter Ring]

What is the correct way to open, read, and write a 'text' file on a
filesystem shared between a number of different operating systems?
(please note that this is in effect what cygwin amounts to).

The scenario could be a 'text' file shared between MacOS, WinNT, and
some UNIX-like OS. The file might be shared in several ways, some of
which would make it impractical (if not outright nonsense) to talk about
one specific OS 'hosting' the file.

Some applications, e.g. emacs, try to guess from the file's content what
to do. Obviously, this works only for interactive applications.

I won't argue with the benefits of explicitly opening files 'rb'. I just
wonder why anyone would ever want to do anytning else?

Kind regards
Peter Ring


-----Original Message-----
From: Earnie Boyd [ mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com ]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 4:29 PM
To: cygwin users
Subject: Re: LF vs. CR/LF (WAS: Problems with libtiff!)


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