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This election thing is really getting over my head.Since fice said much much earlier that he would do a documentation of the field format if enough people asked, here's my vote.

Anyone else that wants him to do the documentation?
 
thank you, ive been screaming about feild file format for months now, feels like a year already  :P
ahh, come on fice, whooo hoooo  :D
 
OK, message understood  :)I've only just got back home so I have things to do ... unpack all my stuff ... upgrade computer ... repair parents' computer .... but eventually I'll run out of excuses to laze about and get around to writing the doc  :D
 
It definately gets my vote. Of course, everyone knew that already, right? Right.
 
OK, preliminary field file format description is up on my website.
 
File downloaded...
I scanned through, don't have time to read it properly yet.
Anyway, fice, the field file format is in non standard notepad format?
I had to use Word to open it.
 
Windows's text format is different from everyone elses. (WOW, shock huh?) It would seem that Winodows like using Carrage Returns/Linefeeds (CR/LF)to show new lines. Other OS's tend just to use carrage returns(CR) to show an end of the line. Notepad it one of the crappiest text readers I've ever seen. It can only parse CR/LF-type text and has a maximum text size of only 64K(!) Even DOS Edit was better than that. Find a different text reader...
 
Actually, Win2K's notepad allows for unlimited sizes. It's still a crappy reader of course. BUT, I still think it is better than DOS edit as edit doesn't allow for line-breaking (ficedula's doc would have been very tiresome to read in dos edit).I'm surprised this problem shows up, isn't the internet protocols supposed to handle things like this? Is there a wrong configuration in Apache so that it transmits the file as binary instead of text?

BTW, WordPad works fine with all text files. It's still crap, but at least it's better.

[This message has been edited by dagsverre (edited June 20, 2001).]
 
Don't think the protocols will do any CRLF <-> CR translations. I didn't realise it wasn't in standard Notepad format, since I don't use Notepad as my standard TXT file viewer (since it is crap, as Dag pointed out). Hmmm.Well, everybody's got *some* program that can view it anyway.

Actually, strange thing: The original on my hard disk is in CRLF format. Somehow the FTP server, or Apache, has translated it into CR only format. Dammit.
 
I think it's the error of uploading as binary instead of ASCII?Anyway, I do use Win2k's notepad but it seems that TAB's are differently treated in Win2K and WinMe's Notepad
 
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