Re: Using DB to cache METARs ?

[Martin G. <gim...@gi...>]

Phil Pierotti <phi...@sw...> writes:

> Martin Geisler wrote:
>> Ahh... MSIE 6... you're using Windows!  That made a bell ring! :-)
>> The problem is that your client translates the newlines into
>> carrige-return newline --- Unix uses a plain newline, but Windows
>> likes to use carrige-return newline.  And of course one cannot just go
>> around changing binary files like that...
>
> Don't ya just *hate* that?

Yeah, those binary formats are no fun at all... :-)

> Ya know, I have to say:
>
> I saw an option in WinCVS saying
> 	"Checkout text files with the Unix LF (0xa)"
> And thought to myself, "nah, can't be that , these are BINARY files".
>
> Glad we've managed to hunt that one down :-)

So am I!  It's one of those things that I've read about, and when I
did, I thought to myself: yes, I'll remember that, but guess what... I
still forgot :-)

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