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Re: Source filters
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From:
Gurusamy Sarathy
Date:
March 24, 2000 07:37
Subject:
Re: Source filters
Message ID:
200003241536.HAA11976@maul.ActiveState.com
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:32:10 GMT, "Moore, Paul" wrote:
>That's sort of what I was thinking of. But there will of necessity be a
>default if the filter doesn't specify anything explicit. I would say that
>should be textmode, (a) for backward compatibility, and (b) because I would
>expect many of the uses of filters (particularly by the non-experts who
>wouldn't necessarily have found out about a binary input switch) would be
>straight text-handling.
It would seem the default could be DWIM-med by Filter quite easily if
the filter implementation doesn't specify it.
Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com
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