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!

-- 
Bob Weissman
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