-=> mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-   
      
    ml> AFAIK, yes... i have no clue what OS the data files my project works   
    ml> with are created on or what kind of transfers and conversions may   
    ml> happen before the data is zipped... we use a script that pulls the zips   
    ml> from the remote server(s) and unzips it... then my project takes   
    ml> existing data in locally processed text files and loads in the new data   
    ml> from the remote server... it hasn't cared about EOLs on any systems   
    ml> i've run the project on... each one pulls the data archives from the   
    ml> remote server(s) and off we go to the races...   
      
   Cool, that's even better. :)  My guess would have been that FPB would have   
   defaulted to behaviour native to the OS the binary was compiled for.  Looks   
   like there won't be any cross platform issues with text files.   
      
    ml> now, if one must have the same EOL, that's easy enough to do... IIRC,   
    ml> there's one system variable that you can ""override"" to make it use   
    ml> 0x0d0a for EOL on all systems... or you can go for 0x0a on all or even   
    ml> 0x0a0d (older mac eol) if you desire...   
      
   Nah, just wanted to make sure we can read logs from different systems without   
   error. :)  I sent Steven samples of the same log extract in Windows and Unix   
   format, so he should be able to confirm this.   
      
    ml> FPC is very flexible when it comes to plain ASCII text files using the   
    ml> traditional readln and writeln routines... now, if you want to use that   
    ml> UTF-8 mess, it is a whole other story...   
      
   AFAIK, logs are in plain ASCII. :-)   
      
      
    ml> FWIW: my project is a TLE processor... if anyone knows what a TLE is,   
    ml> they will have an idea of what my project does ;)   
      
   Tracking satellites, are we? ;)   
      
   Yep, I do know what TLEs are, and have used them many times. :-)   
      
      
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