: Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] Small changes to subreader.c file

[Loren Merritt]

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Martin Simmons wrote:

>>>>>> On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 18:15:57 -0400, Robert Henney <robh at rut.org> said:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:22:04PM +0200, Adam Tla??ka wrote:
>>> Dnia Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:36:29 +0200, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx>
>>> napisa??:
>>>
>>> It is not a broken format - this is the SRT format as it was first designed
>>> by SubRip creators. It is Windows text file which means CR-LF in it.
>>> Your format is not a SRT file - it is some variation of it but not
>>> original format.
>
>> If we were discussing a binary format, you more than likely would be
>> correct.  This is a text format though, which leaves you quite mistaken.
>
> You have to be really sure that it is a text format.  Experience has shown
> that some Windows formats that appear to be text (e.g. .bat files) don't work
> properly without the \r characters.

The fact that .bat is a text file has nothing to do with whether cmd.exe 
knows how to handle unix-style text files.

--Loren Merritt