Game Module Line Delimiters

Game Module Line Delimiters

[Eric McDonald]

Hi,

We should perhaps standardize on a style of line delimiter for 
game modules and IMF files. Three of them have Mac (CR) 
delimiters, and the rest are Unix (LF) delimiters:

colonizer.g:      ASCII English text, with CR line terminators
pg.imf:           ASCII text, with CR line terminators
space-civ.g:      ASCII English text, with very long lines, with 
CR line terminators

I would suggest the LF delimiters since that is what the bulk of 
the files already have, and it also makes grepping easier (a 
"line" containing a matching pattern won't end up being the 
entire file).

Eric

Re: Game Module Line Delimiters

[Lincoln Peters]

On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 21:11, Eric McDonald wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We should perhaps standardize on a style of line delimiter for 
> game modules and IMF files. Three of them have Mac (CR) 
> delimiters, and the rest are Unix (LF) delimiters:
> 
> colonizer.g:      ASCII English text, with CR line terminators
> pg.imf:           ASCII text, with CR line terminators
> space-civ.g:      ASCII English text, with very long lines, with 
> CR line terminators

I find it odd that colonizer.g and space-civ.g would have Mac (CR)
delimeters, since I wrote both of them on the same Linux box.

> 
> I would suggest the LF delimiters since that is what the bulk of 
> the files already have, and it also makes grepping easier (a 
> "line" containing a matching pattern won't end up being the 
> entire file).

That makes sense to me, unless anyone thinks that Xconq modules need to
be readable in Windows Notepad.

-- 
Lincoln Peters <sampln@sbcglobal.net>

Re: Game Module Line Delimiters

[Hans Ronne]

>I find it odd that colonizer.g and space-civ.g would have Mac (CR)
>delimeters, since I wrote both of them on the same Linux box.

You emailed them to me, and they probably got autoconverted when I opened
your mail :-/.

>> I would suggest the LF delimiters since that is what the bulk of
>> the files already have, and it also makes grepping easier (a
>> "line" containing a matching pattern won't end up being the
>> entire file).
>
>That makes sense to me, unless anyone thinks that Xconq modules need to
>be readable in Windows Notepad.

The idea is that all files should be Unix format. The Mac code can open and
read them anyway. We could add a similar capacity to the Windows code.

Hans