working on analysing africa history completeness

[Jules Descartes]

I want to announce that I am now analysing the status of 'africa'
tzdata file.
I will reporter when finished.

I suggest that other group member also make a contribution, not leav
all the work for Alois.

[Jules Descartes]

I have completed the analyse of tzdata file 'africa' and made notes for those countries were additional research is needed to make tzdata history of the pre-1970 era complete in Africa.

In fact, not much work will be needed.

Please review the attached file for errors or oversights.

[John]

Jules,

Are you and Alois using the same program to generate these files?
This file has the same carriage return and line feed problems as the
europe_list.txt file. In contrast, the tzhist_germany.txt file was
clean.

John

>  africa_hist.txt
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[Jules Descartes]

We work both mostly on Linux, using a simple text editor.

Line endings in Linux consist only of LF characters, not CR/LF pairs
as on windows.

You should get a proper editor on Windows which understands this.
uedit is a good choice, but there are certainly also free ones.

Jules

[David Patte]

Notepad++ (Free) can convert from one format to the other.