Re: Install problems

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> Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 09:24:10 +0200
> From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <[email protected]>
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> + Marco Antoniotti <[email protected]>:
> 
> | > From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <[email protected]>
> | > I'll bet that your defsystem.lisp has its lines ending with CRLF.
> | 
> | Well.  In that case, where is the DEFSYSTEM coming from?
> 
> Wrong question.  The right question is, by what path did it get to the
> user?  CRLF line endings easily arise from a migration through a
> Windows system.  It sure happens to me often enough, though (or
> perhaps because) I shun Windows whenever possible.  Also some network
> protocols insist on CRLF endings, and use of a broken client could
> retain those endings.

Well.  Yes.  That is what I meant.

> 
> | Anyway, this seems like something to be put in the list of things to
> | do for CMUCL.
> 
> Hmmm.  I presume you mean, it should discard the CR from a CRLF inside
> a string constant?  Sounds reasonable to me, if the spec doesn't
> forbid it.

No.  In the specific case, it means that the

     tilde newline

FORMAT directive should always work, even when the 'newline' is the
CRLF pair.

Cheers

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