[Radiance-general] librtrad.a

Rob Guglielmetti rpg at rumblestrip.org
Fri Oct 27 07:24:59 CEST 2006


On Oct 26, 2006, at 5:23 PM, Gregory J. Ward wrote:

> Hi Rob,
>
> You're not the first to make the mistake of using Windows in a  
> misguided attempt to get some work done...

Ha!

>
> End of line in Unix is "line-feed" (hex 0A), "carriage-return" (hex  
> 0D) in pre-X MacOS, and carriage-return followed by line-feed in  
> Windows (inherited from DOS, inherited from CP/M).  This has caused  
> more headaches over the years than just about all the other  
> divergent standards combined, including the '/' '\' stupidity  
> between DOS/VAX and Unix.

Cool, thanks for the education on the various EOL variants, but I'm  
really a lot more excited about the fact that my calling myself an  
idiot is now a matter of public record, on the radiance-online  
archives.  Excellent!  =8-)

- Rob



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