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Re: Help : File does not end with newline
- To: cgf at redhat dot com, dewar at gnat dot com
- Subject: Re: Help : File does not end with newline
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 21:24:19 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, kaih at khms dot westfalen dot de
<<Cygwin is a little strange, however, in that it tries to straddle the worlds
of Windows and UNIX. The special behavior of CTRL-Z was actually causing
other problems with ported UNIX tools, even in text mode. That is why we
decided to eliminate it.
>>
interesting, can you elaborate. I certainly think is is a bad idea to
*generate* 1A characters, but recognizing them *at the end of the file
only* seems like it should be completely harmless. I suspect baby and
bath water here :-)