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- From: bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: The woes of ^Z
- Message-ID: <ZwcawB2w165w@1776.COM>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 07:08:34 EST
- References: <1992Dec23.235629.21085@ve6mgs.ampr.org>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: 1776 Enterprises, Sudbury MA
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- mark@ve6mgs.ampr.org (Mark G. Salyzyn) writes:
- > system@freds.cojones.com (George W. Hayduke) writes:
- > >Yes, well, that's not Waffle's bug, that's part of the CP/M ancestry of
- > >MS-DOS. Lucky us, lucky us.
- > BS, they can talk to files `raw' under DOS if they want, this is the
- > `default' behaviour of UNIX and many other operating systems. Someone
- > just neglected to understand the default behavior of the compiler support
- > library when they wrote Waffle. Don't feel comfortable, this IS A BUG in
- > Waffle and has nothing to do with MS-DOS except that `text' mode is
- > default behavior in their compiler that should have been otherwise!
- >
- > Toy software uses `text' mode for talking to files ...
-
- I have neither the right nor the inclination to speak for Tom, who can ob-
- viously speak for himself, but my $0.02 is that "text" mode may indeed have
- been the right choice for Waffle. I suspect that Waffle would be bigger,
- and possibly slower, if it used "raw" mode (and therefore had to do its own
- EOL checking). Size is an important consideration, since I believe that Tom
- has made sure that even the latest version will run on a 640K machine. Most
- users never encounter the ^Z problem, and fixing it may hurt more users than
- it helps.
-
- In any case, the use of text mode was a design decision. You may not think
- it was the right decision (and your argument may be valid), but that doesn't
- make it a bug.
-
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