Re: XML Blueberry

[Ed Chidester <echid@textwise.com>]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> ...
>
> The concern with respect to IBM is that ... [they are]
> ... somehow unable to handle documents where lines end with
> carriage returns and line feeds, as they do on every non-IBM system on
> the planet.
>
> ...

You might try checking your facts. True, many non-IBM systems handle a
carriage return followed by a line feed (CRLF) as an end of line. In
particular, the Microsoft operating systems. But, you might be surprised
to hear that a small company called Sun Microsystems in their Solaris
operating system only uses a line feed character. In a similar manner
I've heard that Apple only uses a carriage return character to end lines.

Try opening a file that's been created on Solaris using Notepad
(I've attached the above paragraph for your viewing pleasure)...
Looks pretty ugly doesn't it?


In short, I think you're being overly hard on IBM and please realize that
Microsoft hasn't taken over the world just yet.


Ed.

You might try checking your facts. True, many non-IBM systems handle a
carriage return followed by a line feed (CRLF) as an end of line. In
particular, the Microsoft operating systems. But, you might be surprised
to hear that a small company called Sun Microsystems in their Solaris
operating system only uses a line feed character. In a similar manner
I've heard that Apple only uses a carriage return character to end lines.