From: Chris Gehlker <canyonrat@...>
Date: 2003-01-26T00:22:28+09:00
Subject: OT: Windows Text vs DOS Text

This doesn't really have much to do with Ruby. It just seemed to be a 
question that the Ruby community would be uniquely qualified to answer.

Yesterday I thought I knew what "text" meant. I though it was human 
readable ASCII that followed any of three conventions for end-of-line. 
So I felt perfectly comfortable telling someone to distribute a file as 
"Windows/DOS text" to a group of people. I was confused when she asked 
me "Well, which do you want, Windows or DOS?" So I looked at the 
choices her program the OSX version of MS Word was giving her and, sure 
enough, it was making a distinction between "Windows Text" and "DOS - 
OS/2 Text." As far as I can tell, in this locale there isn't any 
difference, but the program does know what locale it is running in. Am 
I just being taken in by MS's idiosyncratic menu design or is the 
distinction real in some places?

TIA

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