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From: aaro@iki.fi (Aaro Koskinen)
Subject: Re: GNAT's Text_IO & empty files
Date: 1998/07/08
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Date: 1998-07-08T00:00:00+00:00
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Samuel Tardieu <sam@ada.eu.org> writes:
> >>>>> "Markus" == Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:
>
> Markus> In addition, it might be worth noting that it is common
> Markus> practive under Unix that all text files end with a LF
> Markus> character. Editors such as vi do not allow you to create a
> Markus> file that does not end with LF.
> 
> Editors such as Emacs define this as a user-option, defaulting to
> "don't add any extra LF", so I'm not sure we can call this "common practice".

Check the POSIX.2 definition of a text file. It says that lines
terminate with LF, and a text file contains at least one line.
-- 
Aaro Koskinen, aaro@iki.fi, http://www.iki.fi/aaro