Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1997-48,: Re: FAT text conversion

# Re: FAT text conversion

Gordon Chaffee (chaffee@cs.berkeley.edu)
Mon, 1 Dec 1997 12:27:42 -0800 (PST)

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Paul Wilkins writes:
> First, I've made conversion the default.

A very bad idea. Allow it, but don't break things for those of us who
don't need these conversions. I realize that you tried to be somewhat
conservative by only doing files of certain extensions. There is still
no guarantee that those same extensions aren't used by some programs
for binary data. Be _very_ conservative when changing defaults.

- Gordon

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