02 Nov 16 16:42, you wrote to me:

 ml>> if the tool is written in freepascal, it will likely handle the EOL
 ml>> just fine... i have a project here that is written in FPC and it
 ml>> works fine on native OS/2 and winwhatever... i copied the code over
 ml>> to a linux box and pulled the data files in and it read them just
 ml>> fine with no dancing about with EOLs... the data files come in in
 ml>> zips and are unzipped with no special options give... especially not
 ml>> the one to change EOLs...

 TL> Even when the file is from a foreign OS? (e.g. Windows text file on
 TL> Linuxx and vicew versa).

AFAIK, yes... i have no clue what OS the data files my project works with are
created on or what kind of transfers and conversions may happen before the data
 is zipped... we use a script that pulls the zips from the remote server(s) and
 unzips it... then my project takes existing data in locally processed text
files and loads in the new data from the remote server... it hasn't cared about
 EOLs on any systems i've run the project on... each one pulls the data
archives from the remote server(s) and off we go to the races...

[time passes]

i just took a look and i have data files with 0xOa and 0x0d0a EOLs... they are
all read with no problem... output files from my project take the EOL for the
system it is running on so a 999 line output file on the linux box will be 999
bytes smaller than the exact same output file created on a winwhatever or OS/2
box... the difference being, of course, that 0x0d is not there...

now, if one must have the same EOL, that's easy enough to do... IIRC, there's
one system variable that you can ""override"" to make it use 0x0d0a for EOL on
all systems... or you can go for 0x0a on all or even 0x0a0d (older mac eol) if
you desire...

FPC is very flexible when it comes to plain ASCII text files using the
traditional readln and writeln routines... now, if you want to use that UTF-8
mess, it is a whole other story...


FWIW: my project is a TLE processor... if anyone knows what a TLE is, they will
 have an idea of what my project does 

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