Re: pipe chunking vs Windows

[Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:31:04PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> 
> Andreas Pflug wrote:
> >Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >  
> >>> 
> >>>      
> >>>>I have no idea why that's done - it goes back to the origins of the
> >>>>syslogger - probably because someone mistakenly thinks all WIndows
> >>>>text files have to have CRLF line endings.
> >>>>        
> >Yes this was intentional, notepad still doesn't like LF line endings.
> >Not my preferred text viewer, but the only one that's always available.
> >
> >
> >  
> 
> Not for Wordpad though, and it's pretty universal too. And Notepad won't 
> load a file of any great size anyway. Furthermore, we just can't have 

Just for the record, that hasn't been true for a long time. Notepad opens
large files just fine (well, fine is a matter of definition, since it needs
to load the whole file in RAM which is interesting when you open gigabyte
size files. But IIRC, so does wordpad).

And notepad doesn't carry the risk of people saving the file in word format
(yes, this happens all too frequently from what I've seen)

//Magnus