Re: [PATCH] uudecode doesn't work on files with DOS line endings

[John Cowan]

Pavel Roskin scripsit:

> > "Mac newlines" will be supported just as soon as it is supported
> > in the standard IO library.  Hopefully, not in my life time.  :)
> > Besides, isn't OS/X BSD based?  If so, are you talking about
> > OS9 and earlier?
> 
> Hard to say.  All my Macs run Debian.  I think you are right, it's
> pre-OS/X only.

More accurately, it's pre-OS X *software* rather than pre-OS X *operating
systems* that use the newline = \r convention.  Plenty of such software
still runs on OS X, and it's more or less unpredictable what you get
nowadays: there are even two versions of Perl, a Unix one and a Mac Classic
one, e.g., which can cause confusions, since Perl's "\n" means 0x0D rather
than 0x0A in the Mac Classic version.

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