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- From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: The woes of ^Z
- Message-ID: <J6NNwB2w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 11:40:06 CST
- References: <pei1Hf4hrb@atlantis.psu.edu>
- Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
- Organization: TCS Consulting Services
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- barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
-
- > In article <miXLwB1w165w@1776.COM> bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
- > >phil@miracle.com (Phil Hill) writes:
- > >> The most important argument is that **WAFFLE** doesn't treat ^Z's the same
- > >> when run on a UNIX system. It is important that Waffle remain compatible
- > >> with itself. Or to at least document the difference.
- > >
- > >But *UNIX* doesn't treat ^Zs the same way as MD-DOS does. (It doesn't treat
- > >file names the same either. Should Unix Waffle refuse to respond to file
- > >names that would be illegal in MS-DOS?) Should Waffle be "compatible with
- > >itself" or should it try to blend in as much as possible with the environmen
- > >in which it's run?
- >
- > I agree whole-heartedly. Phil, you're off your rocker. Waffle
- > should not have to "be compatable with itself". Such a philosophy forces
- > you to stoop to the lowest common denomenator of features for an application.
- > It's just plain dumb.
- >
- > The solution for the ^Z problem in Waffle is to not put a ^Z in
- > DOS text file. You're asking for trouble anyway. Tom, it's not worth fixing
- > in Waffle unless you have some spare time to write your own DOS text I/O
- > routines.
-
- I agree with this as well. It isn't anything major..and why should it be?
- From what I understand Ctrl characters are not supposedly allowed for in the
- specs for news and mail anyway, so what's the point? [I am probably wrong
- on this one, but it doesn't really]. Since news and mail is text based,
- why would there be a ctrl z in the first place, unless someone was putting
- in there on purpose to cause problems or whatever.
-
- An on a side note/idea. Wouldn't the way Unix and DOS handle ctrl Z allow
- people to include extra bits for UNIX wihle that would be lost in DOS?
-
- I think that if a ctrl z came in via news, then UUXQT would not finish
- reading that news file and you lose a lot of news. Is taht true?
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