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From: rtczegledi@crocus.waterloo.edu (Richard Czegledi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: DME and vanishing text
Summary: plea for no lf's at the end of line.  use cr/lfs please?
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Date: 12 Aug 89 02:20:36 GMT
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In article <89222.135727WTW101@PSUVM> WTW101@PSUVM.BITNET (Bill Warner) writes:
>I am outputing text in assembly using the DOS funtion Write(...).    I am
>terminating my lines with single linefeeds.  The text outputs to the default
>output device (the screen) just fine.   When I redirect my text to the disk
>The missing text occurs when I continue a line of text.  i.e.  I call
[...]
>Write(...) and print some text, then I call Write(...) again and print text
>thats terminates with a linefeed.   The latter half of the text dissapears!

How about using CR LF's?  One seriously braindamaged (in my opInion) 'feature'
of AmigashmnOS is that it uses LF's for end of lines.  This creates lots
of problems when I'm taking my textfiles to IBM's and other machines.

Why couldn't they have done it proper? Lf is a line feed! and CR is a
carriage return.  It's a pain when programs start sticking out LF's
in the middle of lines.  Such programs usualy crap out on my terminal
(he who lives without a terminal for editing is not alive).

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