Re: CRLF fun stuff again...

Subject: Re: CRLF fun stuff again...
From: Sak Wathanasin (sw@nan.co.uk)
Date: Sat Feb 10 2001 - 06:03:19 EST

In reply to Duncan Sinclair's message of the 10/02/2001 at 10:18 +0000,

> >The converse also happens. There are utilities that use TEXT
>>as their file types that are not TEXT at all. (most of these, I
>>admit, are programmer/geek tools)
>
>This should not matter. The transformation is reversable and so
>is transparent to the Mac application.
>
>...
>
>Yes. And all the linefeeds to returns.
>
>>Do you want to
>>do this even though the conversion is *not* reversible?
>
>But the transformation is reversible. the conversion is as follows:

No it isn't, not if the file was a binary file in the first place.
Think of a binary pixmap embedded in a PS file. There will some bytes
in the pixmap that are \0x0A that should not be converted to CRs. 

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