RE: [xml] final output filtering?

["Mark Itzcovitz" <mark itzcovitz ntlworld com>]

> <rant>
>  It's new, it wasn't the case some time ago. It is a Microsoftism
> because guess what platform found useful to define that files could
> have content X or Y depending on how you looked at them. Sorry it's
> crap that had been backported in the standard, still it's crap and we
> know where this comes from.
>  A stream of bytes is a stream of bytes... you have a collection of
> 0 and 1 on the disk platter and you get a different one when reading,
> Microsoft is to OSes design what MacDo is to cooking art.
> </rant>
>
> Daniel

<rant-rebuttal>
Every platform has its history and, while UNIX goes back further than most,
MS-DOS and VMS both come from an age when standards were not a big issue. I
for one am grateful that we keep moving a little bit closer to the day when
my "common" source for Solaris, OpenVMS and Windows becomes truly common
with no platform-dependent code.
</rant-rebuttal> :-)

OpenVMS C tip of the day: Did you know that getenv() will give you the value
of a VMS logical if there is no environment variable with the stated name?

Mark Itzcovitz
Software Developer, R & D
VISTA Computer Services
mark itzcovitz vistacomp com
www.vistacomp.com



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