[Coco] OS9 text file format

[Wayne Campbell]

This is why I have appreciated TextPad. OS9 text files use the $0D carriage
return character for line endings, the same as Mac uses them for paragraph
terminators. Makes it easy to save files out as "Mac compatible" and know
they will work in NitrOS9 as expected. From what I've read in the other
thread, notepad++ also does this. As there is no compiler for Basic09
programs apart from native environment, I have not had any reason to wonder
if there would be an issue with packing procedures in a Windows environment
and running them in a NitrOS9 environment.

Wayne


On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 9:27 AM Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> The real problem with the NitrOS9 repo needing to be converted (as opposed
> to converting one file at a time) is there is literally over 1000 files in
> the repo...
> Even as a batch operation, that's a lot of files to be converting. It
> needs to be done once, and kept that way.
> The problem is we have various people posting from various machine types
> and no one is using any form of standard.
> The PC build process doesn't care one way or the other, but when you move
> things to NitrOS9 to use the sources there, it REALLY makes a difference.
>
> Bill P.
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