I explained before that point already in the OM that the proper approach is something else e.g. to put a trailer on the end.

You have three possibilities then.

• Use your time machine to go back some thirty-five years to the start of Unix and force all text files to end with a trailing newline.
• Fix all of the files in the past thirty-five plus years of Unix to include the trailing newline, plus all of the utilities that manipulate those files, to match your idea of reality.
• Admit that your idea doesn't match reality.

Maybe all progress depends on the unreasonable man, but you can't turn it around to say that all unreasonable ideas imply progress.

Now if you do have a time machine, I apologize profusely in the hope that you'll let me borrow it briefly. I have a really good business plan that depends on having a working time machine.

(I'm also still waiting for you to fix the bugs in Chump or Chimp or Chorq or whatever your "replacement" is.)

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