interesting experiment.

[Janina Sajka]

Hey, Toby:

Yeah, I understand about the line termination differences among 
the various OS's. But, do you really think he was talking about 
ASCII files having different end of line designators? Somehow I 
doubt it.


On Sun, 19 May 2002, Toby Fisher wrote:

> On Sat, 18 May 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> >
> > > Is there a text editor, that has macro features, Regular expressions, the
> > > ability to save in Windows/Mac/Unix format, etc?
> >
> > What is Mac format? I've never heard of that. And what is Windows
> > format?
> 
> Just taking a guess here.
> 
> As you probably know, DOS/Windows uses a cr lf combination for a newline
> character.  Ok now bare with me on the next bit cos I always get confused
> here.  Linux/unix ohnly uses an lf character.  Well, the Mac uses a cr
> character.  Macs have a hard enough time dealing with cr lf combinations,
> I know, I know, that's cos they're broken, but there it is.   Also, the
> hfs file syst em is kind of weird, that's why access to it is still marked
> as experimental in the Linux kernel, though it's been around since I think
> 2.2 or even late 2.0 days.
> 
> Then again, he could just be talking about MS Office/Claris Works.
> 
>  > > Is there powerful text editing, formatting,
> scripting?
> Of course > there is. Far more powerful than in Windows or Mac. There are
> > probably too many to mention, actually. Linux/Unix has the
> > proprietary world beat hands down on this one.
> 
> Oooo yeh, I mean, my Slackware distriburtion comes with at least 4 for the
> console, and I think there are some more optional ones as well.
> 
> > You certainly don't need them to communicate with anyone, or to
> > print out lovely reports, or design lovely e-content for on line
> > publishing, etc.
> 
> As a matter of interest, where would you recommend as a good place to
> start my education into latex?  I mean, which part of the docs? *smile*
> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 

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