Thoughts on dos cr/lf conversion

[Lars Appel]

At 17:22 11.11.98 +1100, Tim wrote:
>Here is a first pass at a design for a cr/lf conversion vfs module.
>Comments appreciated!  I'm sure other people have thought longer about
>this problem.

I must admit that I stopped thinking about the CR/LF issue shortly
after starting to use the free PFE (Programmer's File Editor) from
Alan Philips on my PC's. Handles DOS vs UNIX text files nicely.

See http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe for details, if unknown.

As long as the PC filesystem does not indicate text/binary attributes
(which my primary Operating System MPE/iX does), it seems to me that
all on-the-fly conversions are somewhat tricky and potentially risky.

Lars.