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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: GNAT: no more exception raised on illformed text file?
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On Feb 6, 11:04=A0am, Shark8 <onewingedsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 6, 1:08 am, Yannick Duch=EAne (Hibou57)
>
> <yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > Seems my FSF GNAT (*) does not raise an exception anymore when
> > encountering the last line of a malformed text file; that is, a text fi=
le
> > whose last line is not terminated with an end-of-line.
>
> Such a file is NOT a malformed text-file; that definition is a UNIX-
> ism and therefore applicable ONLY to the UNIX/LINUX world. In Windows,
> for example, a user in Notepad (or wordpad, or any other editor) can
> save a text-file without such a termination (as Adam points out) and
> it IS a valid text-file precisely because Windows does not define a
> text-file in that manner. (IIRC all that Windows needs is the ASCII
> EOF character.)

I don't even think it needs an EOF character, based on a test I just
ran; if it's stored on disk (or other storage), the file size is
enough to determine where the end of the file is.  Of course that may
not apply to files input over a serial line.

Also, I'm not even sure if the "malformed" definition applies in the
Unix/Linux worlds; I'd think users would still expect things to work
"correctly" even if the line terminator is missing.

                     -- Adam