On Saturday 16 November 2002 01:49 pm, I wrote:
> There is often discussion here about line-ending related problems.
> I know that some of us have the habit of changing our concrete file
> stream class to CrLfFileStream by changing
> FileStream>>ConcreteStream.
>
> The last time I did this was long ago, and I found some problems
> with that which needed minor fixes. I posted a change set that
> fixed them. See http://swiki.gsug.org:8080/sqfixes/986.html for
> this post. But that was back in 2.9alpha days;

And my (omitted) question was:

Do we want to make CrLfFileStream the standard text stream in 3.4a?

This would have the following benefits:

* text saves/loads from files will use the native text format

* change sets (or .st files) that have been through CVS, FTP, or 
WinZip will not be imported with LFs intact

* comparing source with external files will work independently of the 
external line endings

* the File editor, FileList, Celeste message saving, Workspace save to 
file will all use the native text format.

> Perhaps CrLfFileStream needs to be renamed more accurately, as well
> (as Doug suggested).

Something like NativeFileStream or HostFileStream?

> I'm working on a change set that will again fix the various
> problems that come with changing the concreteFileStream to
> CrLfFileStream.
>
> Thoughts?

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