On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Sammy wrote:
>That's not really a bug in fread_string. On a unix system, it's necessary
>to add the \r to have multiline text from db files comply with the telnet
>rfc. It may cause problems with windows or macs, since they use different
>text file arrangements.
>Only when an olc addition saves a multiline description, so stock circle
>won't ever do this.
True, must have been using a hacked world file...stock world didn't do it,
although we probably could kill extra \r's in fread_string anyway.
>> Maybe in bpl13 we can throw away all those string strippers. :)
>
>Using your patch or my extra checks, you'll still get ^M's in your files
>on a unix system every time you save, tho they won't stack up.
That'll be better...have to find the real reason those things pop up, but
there's a place to stop it spreading.
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