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Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary

From Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary
Date 2014-03-22 11:25 -0400
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 23:30:06 -0500, Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>    Well, and now that I'm thinking about this again, since we have 
>unicode, maybe we should have an entire set of standard "file" 
>delimiters for flat-files.
>
>    But the bottom line (pun intended) is that I just want to suck the 
>lines in, and I only want the system to have to handle the delimiters; 

	What "system"... as I understand the UNIX/C stream concept, there are
no "system" delimiters -- it is up to the application program to determine
how to respond to special characters.

	Maybe you'd prefer VMS FORTRAN segmented records -- which encoded
start-of-record and end-of-record bits at the OS level, while writing
blocks of (as I recall -- been 15 years since I had to parse a FORTRAN text
file in a non-compatible language) no more than 256-bytes. A long text
record then would something like:
01lots of text
00carrying over to more blocks
00until finally getting to
10the end block.

	A short line would have both start and end markers
11a short line

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/82final/6443/6443pro_021.html#subhead_segrec_type

implies unformatted (binary) files, but I'm fairly certain I've seen text
contents too (maybe written as unformatted).

	To get a "C-style" file one had to go out of their way to specify a
stream mode, what the line end character would be, and for formatted
output, often a "carriagecontrol" specification when opening the file (as I
recall that activated newline, linefeed, tab, and formfeed behaviors on
output files).
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	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary cool-RR <ram.rachum@gmail.com> - 2014-03-21 15:05 -0700
  Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary cool-RR <ram.rachum@gmail.com> - 2014-03-21 15:08 -0700
  Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-22 09:25 +1100
    Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary cool-RR <ram.rachum@gmail.com> - 2014-03-21 15:34 -0700
      Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary cool-RR <ram.rachum@gmail.com> - 2014-03-21 15:34 -0700
        Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-21 22:44 +0000
          Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-03-21 22:58 -0500
            Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-22 15:15 +1100
              Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-03-21 23:30 -0500
                Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-03-21 23:36 -0500
                Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-22 15:46 +1100
                Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-03-21 23:59 -0500
                Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-03-22 01:54 -0700
                Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-22 10:54 +0000
                Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-03-22 01:24 -0400
                Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-22 09:50 +0000
                Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-03-22 06:14 -0400
                Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-22 16:32 +1100
                Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-03-22 11:25 -0400
            Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-22 10:51 +0000
            Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-22 14:50 +0000
              Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-23 02:09 +1100
                Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-23 01:07 +0000
      Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-22 09:42 +1100
        Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary cool-RR <ram.rachum@gmail.com> - 2014-03-21 15:50 -0700
    Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary cool-RR <ram.rachum@gmail.com> - 2014-03-21 15:55 -0700
      Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-03-21 21:39 -0400
        Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary cool-RR <ram.rachum@gmail.com> - 2014-03-22 03:57 -0700

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