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Re: Rationale for line-ending recommendation?


On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> Me too, and like you and the OP report, it "just works" 99.44% of the time.
> Of course, since it's not the 21st century yet, many Unixoid programs are
> still unable to handle text files properly, hence the remaining 0.66%.

100 - 99.44 = 0.66? You're right - it's clearly not the 21st century
yet, since you seem to be using one of the original
floating-point-bugged Pentium chips. ;-)

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>

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