[fpc-devel]const sLineBreak

[Tomas Hajny]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:59:57 +0200, Darek Mazur wrote
> Użytkownik Michael Van Canneyt napisał:
> > 
> > I think that if your code expects the same linefeed on both platforms,
> > you should rethink your strategy. You should always use the 'local'
> > default. Opening a unix LF file in Windows gives strange results, and
> > vice versa too...
> 
> I dont agree:
>    I don't know on which OS file will be write or read, I have 
> several places to generate and several to read files. And no user 
> need to open this files myself without application.

If it's only your application working with these files, you are already on the
safe side, because FPC supports all line endings on all supported platforms.


>   And second I don't understand why You don't want change it. I 
> don't see any true reason to left it unchanged. Everybody, who want 
> to control output must avoid WRITELN (I don't test READLN, but I use 
> it very rare).  I want do decide, how function work, not OS.
> 
> Of course I can do it by hand, but I think that somebody help me (I 
> must change   more than 1000 places in my program)

We will discuss this internally and let you know the result.

Tomas