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

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Mon Oct 10 12:26:36 CEST 2005


On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:18:24AM +0200, Adam Tla??ka wrote:
> Dnia Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:32:06 +0200, Reimar Döffinger  
> <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> napisa??:
> >How do you know it was supposed to be a Windows text file, and not a
> >"normal" text file and they just happened to develop under windows?
> >Unless there is an official spec, IMHO there is no point in
> >discussing this any further.
> What do you name a "text" file?
> 
> Look for example in a old good Vim editor and do ":set textmode" command
> and then add some lines of text and save all to a file.
> What format will it be saved in? The answer is cr/lf!!
> 
> Your definition of text file format is broken - historically text files
> are files with alphanumerics,spaces and cr/lf line endings.
> What you use is a Unix binary format containing only text data
> and of course only Unix specific which means not compatible with others.
> Doing incompatible software is a MS people domain.
> Are you one of them?!

Look, this trolling will get you no where. Please shut up already. If
you want to make an optional way to generate windows-format text files
when dumping, submit a patch with it as an option, disabled (or better
set to native format) by default. Otherwise please drop it.

Rich




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