[tex-live] Line endings, TeX & friends, TeX Live 2008/2009

[Philip TAYLOR]

Akira Kakuto wrote:
>> Whilst experimenting with the GFS Didot example circulated
>> earlier today, I had occasion to open "GFS-Didot.log" in
>> Notepad, and saw that the line-endings were incorrect;
>
> W32 TeX-output text files have line endings of Unix type: 0x0a.
> This decision is due to my taste.
> Pardon me for that.

Ah, a design decision.  OK.  Perhaps you would
be willing to reconsider at some point in the future.

> If you need to use Notepad, run
> todos GFS-Didot.log
>
> Then line endings become \r\n.
> Sorry for the inconvenience.

No, I don't /need/ to use Notepad, it is more that
I used it today and noticed the problem.

** Phil.