[Coco] OS9 text file format

[Jeff Teunissen]

I have somewhat solved this problem in my CoCoC Git repository by storing
all data internally as linefeed-only, but using a script (which is included
in the repository itself) to automatically convert text files into CR-only
form when you check them out.

I believe the repo is at <https://github.com/D2Deek/CoCoC>. In other news,
I am getting very close to having a maintainable OS9 C compiler.

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 12:27 PM 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.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Mon, Jan 6, 2020 11:38 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] OS9 text file format
>
> In other environments, such as Microware official distributions, there
> were native, Unix and PC hosts and the files were, I believe, in their
> local formats. Microware switched to just PC hosted during my time there,
> but I know for sure the native packages were all OS-9 format.
>
> Since people pull down one Disto to to build on Mac, PC, or Linux, which
> did the district choose? I forgot what Mac uses. I just know I never cared
> for PC files needing both a new line and carriage return at the end of each
> line. :)
>
> The problem will happen as folks check stuff in and out.  A previous job I
> had stored all the files in the repository in Unix format, and converted on
> the way out automatically by the version control tool. But, sometimes
> buttons didn’t get clicked correctly and you’d have a file with a block of
> updates in it in the wrong format.
>
> Can our version control platform take care of this for us?
>
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