Historical question: LF vs. CR\LF in text files
Bob Weissman
bob at omni.com
Sat Jun 2 08:52:22 AEST 1990
- UNIX's representation was (IMHO) a real innovation since it
- simplifies breaking text into lines in software. The cost is
- that you need a device driver to interpret control characters
- on the way in from and out to the terminal.
The old TENEX operating system used ^_ (\037) as the end of line
character. What a pain that was!
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Bob Weissman
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