Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:46:34 +0100

On Friday 22 February 2008 20:08, Tim Mooney wrote:
> (Note the above file must end with '\n' or "\r\n".)

Hi,

is there a rationale behind this? If not, I think this should be fixed.

Similar remarks apply, BTW, to other EPICS tools. For instance, I noticed in 
the past that dbExpand silently ignores the last line of a dbd include file 
if it doesn't end in a newline. This has caused endless grief to Windows 
users, as editors for Windows generally don't automatically add a newline 
at the end.

If this hasn't already been fixed, I propose to put it on the list of things 
to be done before the next release of base. I'd say chances that people 
rely on the faulty behaviour are practically zero.

Cheers
Ben
-- 
"Programming = Mathematics + Murphy's Law" (E.W.Dijkstra)

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System