At 21:41 -0500 4/9/01, Guido van Rossum wrote:
You might need to be able to specify a specific line ending format, but there should also be a default -- and it should be the default appropriate to the OS. So, \n on Unix, \r\n on Windows, \r on Mac running in "Mac mode", and \n on MacOS X running in "Unix mode".
Is it the same in Mac OS X when reading a file from a UFS volume as from an HFS(+) volume? Only if the underlying libraries make it so. (Typing in Mac OS X, but I don't have any UFS volumes lying around.) It's a little scary to contemplate that reading two different files, which happen to be on the same disk spindle, will behave differently for the file on the HFS+ volume than for the file on the UFS volume. [There are perhaps similar issues for our Linux friends who mount Windows volumes.] What ever happened to "move text files to another system using FTP in ASCII mode?" Ah, yes...it probably died of Unicode. --John (there may no be any answers for this) Baxter -- John Baxter jwblist@olympus.net Port Ludlow, WA, USA