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Re: LF vs. CRLF in server .DAT script
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Date: 
Tue, 2 Mar 1999 07:15:42 GMT
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Re: CR/LF, what a waste of bandwidth! 1/2 :)

Re: \010: Was it really a GPF?  LDLite should have hit the
characters, recognized them as garbage, and ignored the
line, and maybe exit-ed without doing anything. If it was a
GPF, I'll try and duplicate the problem.
-gyug


Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.admin.general, wilsonj@xoommail.com (jonathan wilson) writes:
> > i have discovered an anoying problem with lugnet.cad.dat • [...]
> You're right -- the data being output by the ldraw.cgi script was only using
> LF when it should have been using CRLF.  The script was written specifically
> to work with LDLITE, which handles plain-LF newlines, but since LDLITE can
> save files to disk and since LDRAW and LEDIT are DOS programs, CRLF is better
> all-around.  LDAO is a Windows app but Windows still uses CRLF. • [...]
> p.s.  Paul:  while testing the change to the script, I accidentally wrote
>    print "$_\013\010";
> when I meant to write
>    print "$_\013\012";
> \010 is ASCII backspace and it caused LDLITE 1.5 to GPF on me.  No biggie but
> you probably wanna know.



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  Re: LF vs. CRLF in server .DAT script
 
(...) Indeed! Full-on :-( (...) Oh. Sorry, it probably wasn't a GPF. After all these years I'm still in the habit of saying something "GPF'd on me." I don't even think that's what MS calls it anymore. Well anyhow, the screen flashed and then LDLITE (...) (28 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  LF vs. CRLF in server .DAT script
 
[Added lugnet.cad.dev & lugnet.cad to newsgroups list; followups set to lugnet.cad.dev] (...) Jonathan: Thank You for noticing this and reporting this!! Please let me know if the fix doesn't work for you (worked for me, but I only tested with LDLITE (...) (28 years ago, 27-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)

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