From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de (mo-p00-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.162]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p0MK5Kbj023962 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:05:21 -0500 (EST) X-RZG-AUTH: :JiIXek6mfvEEUpFQdo7Fj1/zg48CFjWjQv0cW+St/nW/YPAwtil3kVlq3myX X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Received: from britannica.bec.de (dslb-088-074-063-088.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.74.63.88]) by post.strato.de (jimi mo34) (RZmta 24.12) with (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTP id j00ea9n0MJI2fj for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:05:17 +0100 (MET) Received: by britannica.bec.de (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:05:17 +0100 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:05:17 +0100 From: Joerg Sonnenberger To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: line termination in manuals Message-ID: <20110122200516.GA26592@britannica.bec.de> Mail-Followup-To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv References: <20110122195656.GE12520@iris.usta.de> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-tech Reply-To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110122195656.GE12520@iris.usta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 08:56:56PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > deraadt@ pointed out that, if somebody would compile mandoc > on Windows, the C library would take care of different > conventions regarding line termination. Actually, it wouldn't. We explicitly read the file as whole or mmap it and separate it at \n. I don't see a good reason why we couldn't just drop \r before \n and accept both silently. Joerg -- To unsubscribe send an email to tech+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv