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On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 22:39 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Thursday 09 February 2006 22:05, Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> > I would like to see it drop the tab handling for indicating newlines |
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> > and just use a real newlines when we want a newline. |
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> > While having the tabs makes it easier for people to read it increases |
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> > the byte size and adds some undesired complexity for admins, scripts & |
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> > programs which want to utilize the file. A basic grep or sort would |
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> > probably be more than a one liner when having to deal with the |
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> > newline+tabs. |
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> umm, i'm 99% sure you read it wrong ... the lines were wrapped in the GLEP to |
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> help you read it, the actual file format will not be like that |
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I hope that is is the case. |
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