[fpc-devel]const sLineBreak

[Tomas Hajny]

From:           	Darek Mazur <darekm at emadar.com>
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Subject:        	Re: [fpc-devel]const sLineBreak
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> Użytkownik Tomas Hajny napisał:
> > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:59:57 +0200, Darek Mazur wrote
> > 
> >>Użytkownik Michael Van Canneyt napisał:
> >>
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> >>  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.
> 
> Thx, that sounds good.

A new procedure SetTextLineEnding (var T: text; S: string) was added 
to System unit in CVS. This allows you to change line ending for 
individual text files. After call to Assign the line ending for that 
file is set to the default line ending on your platform, then you can 
change the default value using the newly provided procedure - since 
that time all WriteLn calls will use your new value. Changing the 
default value system-wide would be dangerous because of output to 
console, redirection, libraries possibly expecting particular 
behaviour etc.

Tomas