> > > > Ok. I understand the dilemma. In that case, perhaps it would make sense
> > > > for it to be a compile time option, with defaults as I mentioned. It
> > > > seems most likely to be platform dependent, and probably set only once
> > > > anyway. This way the windows driver at least wouldn't change at all
> > > > ...back to the list. Comments anyone?
> > >
> > > Compile-time options are even less attractive -- perhaps some
> > > auto-sensing code that looked at the first line and determined the
> > > proper behavior.
> >
> > Hmm I don't understand what auto-sensing means.
> > At any rate I would change the behavior in the next
> > version.
>
> For auto-sensing, I was thinking of looking at the end of the first line
> and seeing if it is \n or \r\n and using that to handle the rest of the
> lines.
The point of this is to handle arbitrary binary data (and give people an
option of CRLF translation) right? What if the "wrong" data appears?
How does one auto-sense binary data? (Perhaps I'm missing something..)
-Cedar
